My Constant Theme Is Backed Again

Regular readers know that I've been pounding on the theme of psych meds work about half the time and that just isn't good enough. Here's a researcher--a prominent one, even--getting my back in a recent letter to the American Journal of Psychiatry. Key quote: "The results are so similar to those observed in lithium treatment studies reported 20 to 35 years ago that the question of whether today’s best treatments available for bipolar disorder are better than older treatment begs for an answer." He's referring to some of the results of the STEP-BD study which I've already posted about. Read the whole letter here. I think some of us know what that answer is.