Timothy Wilens, MD is the Chief of the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at MGH and the Co-Director of the Center for Addiction Medicine. He is the MGH Trustees Chair in Addiction Medicine and a Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Wilens’ research interests include the relationship among ADHD, bipolar disorder, and substance use disorders; embedded health care models, and the pharmacotherapy of ADHD across the lifespan.
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Children and adolescents with ADHD who have three or more symptoms are at significantly higher risk for initiating nicotine and tobacco use, while those with […] -
The fully updated and expanded third edition will continue to be an essential resource for all psychiatrists and mental health providers. -
Earlier initiation of treatment and longer duration of stimulant therapy for ADHD were associated with lower risk for prescription stimulant misuse and/or cocaine use in […] -
Peripartum toxicology testing is disproportionately performed on non-white, younger, and publicly insured mothers and their infants. -
The likelihood of a student reporting nonmedical use of prescription stimulants during the previous year were higher at secondary schools with higher proportions of students […] -
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