text: why can't bi-polar patients get medication implants? a friend of ours is bi-polar. he's a fantastic person, talented and creative and dedicated. when he takes his medication.   after a month or two, he feels fine & stops taking it and totally loses the plot. harmlessly, i mean; he stops coping & winds up in hospital.  he can't live alone, he can't hold down a job, and now his mom has alzheimer's. she & his dad are not strong. i'm not family, none of us can understand why this goes on. he is never going to get any opportunity to get a direction in his life, not in two months, yet he has so much talent. it seems to us like medical care has completely failed him, and things can only get worse.   if you can get six-month contraceptive implants, why, why can't he get his meds that way? right now he doesn't even have any options. are doctors just too cautious? the manufacturers don't make it that way.  i think that your friend is in the minority in that most patients realize they need to be on the meds and the meds are what is keeping things on an even keel.  it's probably not profitable to the drug companies to make them as an implant...or maybe they just haven't considered it.