DEAR PEOPLE’S PHARMACY: My young adult daughter has been taking Zoloft for depression. She recently weaned off of it and her new doctor put her on 5 milligrams of lithium orotate. She first ...

Then, in 1994, the FDA created the category of “dietary supplements,” which it does not evaluate, ushering lithium—mostly in the form of lithium orotate—back into a patent-medicine-like ...

The dose of lithium orotate your daughter is taking (5 milligrams) is very low. As long as she is being monitored, this should pose little risk.

She recently weaned off of it and her new doctor put her on 5 milligrams of lithium orotate. She first tried to take bupropion but couldn’t tolerate the higher 300 milligram dose. What’s more ...