Lithium and suicide prevention.

Lithium in drinking water and suicide prevention: a review of the evidence.

Suicide is a serious public health problem worldwide, and many nations are committed to developing prevention programmes to reduce the incidence of suicide. To date, several strategies have been proposed for suicide prevention, both at the population and at the individual level, some of which may be pharmacological. In particular, a substantial amount of data show that lithium significantly red...

Commentary: Lithium in Drinking Water and Suicide Mortality

What Role Does (Should) Lithium Play in Suicide Treatment/Prevention?

Suicide is a global phenomenon, and on September 4, 2014, the World Health Organization published the first report on suicide prevention.1 The report indicates that more than 800,000 people die by suicide every year—almost 1 person every 40 seconds. Although suicide occurs all over the world, approximately 75% of all suicides occur in lowand middle-income countries. It occurs in all age-groups;...

Toward Suicide Prevention

Suicide is an important mode of death. There are many psychiatrically ill patients in therapy running different degree of suicide risk. The risk of death by suicide is with almost all psychiatric illnesses, but it is found more with depressive disease, schizophrenia and personality disorder. Many studies have reported higher incidences of suicide attempts and suicide among alcoholics, which is ...

[Pharmacological suicide prevention under special consideration of lithium salts].

OBJECTIVE This minireview summarizes the existing evidence from large, international observational studies and RCTs on the suicide preventive effects of lithium as compared to other mood stabilizers and antidepressants. METHODS Unsystematic literature review. RESULTS There is increasing and robust evidence from a relatively large number of studies and metaanalyses that lithium long-term tre...

Comparative Effectiveness of Lithium and Valproate for Suicide Prevention and Associations With Nonsuicide Mortality: A Dissertation

Background: Lithium has been reported in some, but not all, studies to be associated with reduced suicide risk. Methods: Intention-to-treat, high-dimensional propensity score-matched cohort study of one-year suicide mortality in Veterans Health Administration patients (n = 21,194/treatment) initiating lithium or valproate from 1999-2008. One-year suicide mortality was examined among all patient...