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Kevin Potter, PhD

  • Varenicline Helps Teens and Young Adults to Quit Vaping
    This is the first clinical trial to examine how varenicline works for youths attempting to quit nicotine vaping.
  • Contingency Management: An Effective Strategy for Harm Reduction in Youth Using Cannabis
    This study supports the use of a contingency management intervention as a potentially viable harm reduction strategy for adolescents and young adults not yet ready […]
  • Patterns of Use and Cannabis Use Disorder in Adults Using Cannabis for Medical Reasons
    While most adults had a stable pattern of use over the first year, about 13% of the participants in this study had an escalating pattern […]
  • Cannabis for Depression and Anxiety: Little Benefit, Higher Risk of Cannabis Use Disorder
    Cannabis use disorder symptoms are more common in adults receiving medical cannabis cards, especially in those with anxiety or depressive symptoms.
  • In Teens and Young Adults, Does Abstaining from Cannabis Mean Drinking More Alcohol?
    Four weeks of incentivized cannabis abstinence among adolescents and young adults was associated with an increase in both the frequency and amount of alcohol used.

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