Desperate Measures: Ghaemi’s Response to Our Review of Lithium and Suicide Prevention
Mad in America
JULY 13, 2024
The main evidence cited to support this belief came from a meta-analysis published in 2013, which had excluded a large proportion of trials due to the fact that no suicides had occurred in them ( Cipriani et al, 2013 ). If lithium does prevent suicide, a preventive effect on suicide attempts should be seen, too, and it is not.
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