Posted by SLS on January 10, 2014, at 23:04:51 [reposted on January 10, 2014, at 23:24:17 | original URL]
In reply to Lou's response-pahapahlu, posted by Lou Pilder on January 10, 2014, at 21:54:55
I don't know how productive it is to reason together (exercise logic) without facts.
Clozapine was approved by the FDA in 2002 to treat suicidality.
"Treatments should be similarly plausible, even if unproved, following the precedent of the InterSePT trial of clozapine versus olanzapine for suicidal behavior in schizophrenia, which was a major source of support for the FDA approval of clozapine to reduce suicide risk in 2003the first treatment of any kind to receive such approval."
The usefulness of lithium to reduce suicide is indisputable.
"Many studies consistently support the impression that risks of suicide and of life-threatening attempts are far lower during treatment with lithium"
"Some researchers have suggested that lithium may have specific effects against suicide that are independent of mood-stabilizing actions."
http://www.psychiatrictimes.com/bipolar-disorder/can-suicide-be-prevented
- ScottSome see things as they are and ask why.
I dream of things that never were and ask why not.- George Bernard Shaw
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