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Title: Prophylactic treatment of alcoholism by lithium carbonate. A controlled study. Author: Merry J, Reynolds CM, Bailey J, Coppen A. Journal: Lancet; 1976 Sep 04; 1(7984):481-2. PubMed ID: 74457. Abstract: Lithium therapy has been shown to have a therapeutic influence in reducing the drinking and incapacity by alcohol in depressive alcoholics in a prospective double-blind placebo-controlled trial conducted over one year, but it had no significant effect on non-depressed patients. Patients in the trial treated by placebo had significantly greater alcoholic morbidity if they were depressive than if they were non-depressive.[Abstract] [Full Text] [Related] [New Search]