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Lithium: A Brake in the Rising Cost of Mental Illness
Ann Reifman;
Richard Jed Wyatt, MD
Arch Gen Psychiatry. 1980;37(4):385-388.
Abstract
• Lithium has been extraordinarily successful in the treatment of manic-depression. To compute the economic impact of that success on the United States, an estimate of the cost of care for manic-depression before lithium was introduced was compared with cost estimates after lithium. Economic gains in production were also calculated. Assumptions and exclusions err on the conservative side so that estimates, if inaccurate, are low. The use of lithium as a treatment for manic-depression has saved $2.88 billion in ten years and resulted in a $1.28 billion gain in production, or a conservative total of over $4 billion.
Author Affiliations
From the Laboratory of Clinical Psychopharmacology, Division of Special Mental Health Research, National Institute of Mental Health, and Saint Elizabeths Hospital, Washington, DC.
Footnotes
Accepted for publication June 29, 1979.
Reprint requests to Saint Elizabeths Hospital, William A. White Bldg, Rm 536, Washington, DC 20032 (Ms Reifman).
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