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VIDEO: Don't overlook lithium for suicidality

Publish date: April 3, 2013

 

Dr. David Sheehan reminds us that lithium works for suicidality -- but after the crisis has passed people have to be taken off it gradually, if at all. He also discusses the potential for new drugs to treat suicidality.

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