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.
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 […]
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 […]
In this study of youth 16 to 25 years of age experiencing homelessness, high rates of concurrent substance use disorders and psychiatric illness were observed.