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To the Editor: Most patients treated with lithium have side effects, as Price and Heninger note in their review (Sept. 1 issue),¹ but the authors do not emphasize the potential severity of these effects. Lithium poisoning results from therapeutic doses of lithium carbonate that are excessive because of concurrent medical conditions or drugs that alter the metabolism of lithium or because of inadequate supervision and from intentional overdoses for attempted suicide.

In the United States in 1993, according to surveillance data² for 70 percent of the population, treatment with lithium led to 3 deaths, 184 toxic incidents that were life-threatening . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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