Am J Psychiatry 1990; 147:655-657
Copyright © 1990 by American Psychiatric Association
Lithium treatment for cocaine abusers with bipolar spectrum disorders
EV Nunes, PJ McGrath, S Wager and FM Quitkin
Depression Evaluation Service, New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York 10032.
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.