Overview

This is a summary of the European public assessment report (EPAR) for Aripiprazole Mylan Pharma. It explains how the Agency assessed the medicine to recommend its authorisation in the EU and its conditions of use. It is not intended to provide practical advice on how to use Aripiprazole Mylan Pharma.

For practical information about using Aripiprazole Mylan Pharma, patients should read the package leaflet or contact their doctor or pharmacist.

Aripiprazole Mylan Pharma is used in patients with the following mental illnesses:

  • schizophrenia, a mental illness with a number of symptoms, including disorganised thinking and speech, hallucinations (hearing or seeing things that are not there), suspiciousness and delusions (false beliefs). Aripiprazole Mylan Pharma is used in patients aged 15 years or over;
  • bipolar I disorder, a mental illness in which patients have manic episodes (periods of abnormally high mood), alternating with periods of normal mood. They may also have episodes of depression. Aripiprazole Mylan Pharma is used in adults to treat moderate to severe manic episodes and to prevent new manic episodes in adults who have responded to the medicine in the past. Aripiprazole Mylan Pharma is also used for up to 12 weeks to treat moderate to severe manic episodes in patients aged 13 years or over.

Aripiprazole Mylan Pharma contains the active substance aripiprazole and is a ‘generic medicine’. This means that Aripiprazole Mylan Pharma is similar to a ‘reference medicine’ already authorised in the European Union (EU) called Abilify.

Aripiprazole Mylan Pharma is available as tablets (5, 10, 15 and 30 mg) and can only be obtained with a prescription.

For schizophrenia, the recommended starting dose is 10 or 15 mg by mouth per day in adults, followed by a ‘maintenance’ dose of 15 mg once a day. In patients aged between 15 and 17 years, the starting dose is 2 mg a day (using an aripiprazole product available in liquid form), which is gradually increased to the recommended dose of 10 mg once a day.

For treating manic episodes in bipolar disorder, the recommended starting dose in adults is 15 mg by mouth once a day, either on its own or in combination with other medicines. To prevent manic episodes in adults, the same dose should be continued.

For treating manic episodes in patients aged between 13 and 17 years, the starting dose is 2 mg a day (using an aripiprazole product available in liquid form), which is gradually increased to the recommended dose of 10 mg once a day. Treatment must not last longer than 12 weeks.

The dose should be adjusted in patients who are taking other medicines that affect the way Aripiprazole Mylan Pharma is broken down in the body. For further information, see the Summary of Product Characteristics (also part of the EPAR).

The active substance in Aripiprazole Mylan Pharma, aripiprazole, is an antipsychotic medicine. Its exact mechanism of action is unknown, but it attaches to several different receptors on the surface of nerve cells in the brain. This disrupts signals transmitted between brain cells by ‘neurotransmitters’, chemicals that allow nerve cells to communicate with each other. Aripiprazole is thought to act mainly by being a ‘partial agonist’ for the receptors for the neurotransmitters dopamine and 5-hydroxytryptamine (also called serotonin). This means that aripiprazole acts like dopamine and 5-hydroxytryptamine by activating these receptors, but less strongly than the neurotransmitters. Since dopamine and 5-hydroxytryptamine are involved in schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, aripiprazole helps to normalise the activity of the brain, reducing psychotic or manic symptoms and preventing them from returning.

Because Aripiprazole Mylan Pharma is a generic medicine, studies in people have been limited to tests to determine that it is bioequivalent to the reference medicine, Abilify. Two medicines are bioequivalent when they produce the same levels of the active substance in the body.

Because Aripiprazole Mylan Pharma is a generic medicine and is bioequivalent to the reference medicine, its benefits and risks are taken as being the same as the reference medicine’s.

The Agency’s Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) concluded that, in accordance with EU requirements, Aripiprazole Mylan Pharma has been shown to have comparable quality and to be bioequivalent to Abilify. Therefore, the CHMP’s view was that, as for Abilify, the benefit outweighs the identified risk. The Committee recommended that Aripiprazole Mylan Pharma be approved for use in the EU.

A risk management plan has been developed to ensure that Aripiprazole Mylan Pharma is used as safely as possible. Based on this plan, safety information has been included in the summary of product characteristics and the package leaflet for Aripiprazole Mylan Pharma, including the appropriate precautions to be followed by healthcare professionals and patients.

Further information can be found in the summary of the risk management plan.

In addition, the company that markets Aripiprazole Mylan Pharma will provide educational materials to be supplied to patients or their caregivers and to doctors to explain the safe use of the medicine in patients between 13 and 17 years.

The European Commission granted a marketing authorisation valid throughout the European Union for Aripiprazole Pharmathen on 30 June 2015. The name of the medicine was changed to Aripiprazole Mylan Pharma on 3 June 2016.

For more information about treatment with Aripiprazole Mylan Pharma, read the package leaflet (also part of the EPAR) or contact your doctor or pharmacist.

Aripiprazole Mylan Pharma : EPAR - Summary for the public

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Aripiprazole Mylan Pharma : EPAR - Risk-management-plan summary

Product information

Aripiprazole Mylan Pharma : EPAR - Product Information

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16/02/2024

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Product information documents contain:

  • summary of product characteristics (annex I);
  • manufacturing authorisation holder responsible for batch release (annex IIA);
  • conditions of the marketing authorisation (annex IIB);
  • labelling (annex IIIA);
  • package leaflet (annex IIIB).

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Product details

Name of medicine
Aripiprazole Mylan Pharma (previously Aripiprazole Pharmathen)
Active substance
aripiprazole
International non-proprietary name (INN) or common name
aripiprazole
Therapeutic area (MeSH)
  • Schizophrenia
  • Bipolar Disorder
Anatomical therapeutic chemical (ATC) code
N05AX12

Pharmacotherapeutic group

Psycholeptics

Therapeutic indication

Aripiprazole Mylan Pharma is indicated for the treatment of schizophrenia in adults and in adolescents aged 15 years and older.

Aripiprazole Mylan Pharma is indicated for the treatment of moderate to severe manic episodes in Bipolar I Disorder and for the prevention of a new manic episode in adults who experienced predominantly manic episodes and whose manic episodes responded to aripiprazole treatment.

Aripiprazole Mylan Pharma is indicated for the treatment up to 12 weeks of moderate to severe manic episodes in Bipolar I Disorder in adolescents aged 13 years and older.

Authorisation details

EMA product number
EMEA/H/C/003803

Generic

This is a generic medicine, which is developed to be the same as a medicine that has already been authorised, called the reference medicine. A generic medicine contains the same active substance(s) as the reference medicine, and is used at the same dose(s) to treat the same disease(s). For more information, see Generic and hybrid medicines.

Marketing authorisation holder
Mylan Pharmaceuticals Limited

Damastown Industrial Park
Mulhuddart
Dublin 15
Ireland

Opinion adopted
23/04/2015
Marketing authorisation issued
30/06/2015
Revision
17

Assessment history

Aripiprazole Mylan Pharma : EPAR - Procedural steps taken and scientific information after authorisation

Aripiprazole Pharmathen : EPAR - Public assessment report

CHMP summary of positive opinion for Aripiprazole Pharmathen

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