Lithium treatment for cocaine abusers with bipolar spectrum disorders
- 1 May 1990
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Psychiatric Association Publishing in American Journal of Psychiatry
- Vol. 147 (5) , 655-657
- https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.147.5.655
Abstract
An open trial of lithium carbonate showed little efficacy for 10 cocaine abusers with bipolar spectrum disorders. It may be that the bipolar subgroup of cocaine abusers is heterogeneous and that only a fraction are lithium responsive.This publication has 9 references indexed in Scilit:
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