Are you on too many medications for bipolar disroder?

Are you on too many medications for bipolar disroder? I came across this interesting article this week on the idea of too much overlapping medications... We are in the process of working on the next video segment on medication and treatment for bipolar disorder and thought this was relevant... "Multiple Medication Use in General Practice and Psychiatry: So What?" by Ahsan Y. Khan, M.D., and Sheldon H. Preskorn, M.D. Multiple medication use is the rule rather than exception in modern therapeutics. Factors affecting the recent increase in utilization of medications include the growth of third-party insurance coverage for drugs; increased marketing efforts to promote new medications to prescribers and directly to consumers; and clinical guidelines recommending long-term treatment for chronic conditions such as high cholesterol, acid reflux disease, heart disease, diabetes, asthma and clinical depression. Here is a link to the full text: http://www.psychiatrictimes.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleId=172901304