209. Cannabis Psychosis in Youth | Dr. David Rettew

Episode 209 December 23, 2024 01:15:45
209. Cannabis Psychosis in Youth | Dr. David Rettew
High Truths on Drugs and Addiction
209. Cannabis Psychosis in Youth | Dr. David Rettew

Dec 23 2024 | 01:15:45

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Show Notes

Cannabis Use Disorder and Cannabis Induced Psychosis is a common diagnosis of adolescent psychiatrist. Listen to Dr. David Rettew's tips in diagnosis and how to speak to young people about marijuana.

David Rettew, MD is a child & adolescent psychiatrist who currently works as the Medical Director of Lane County Behavioral Health in Eugene, Oregon.  He is also a clinical faculty member in the Psychiatry Department at OHSU.  Before moving to Oregon in 2021, he worked as a tenured associate professor of psychiatry and pediatrics at the University of Vermont Medical Center and was Medical Director of the child and families division of the Vermont Department of Mental Health.  He was also past president of the Vermont Association of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.  Dr Rettew built and then acted as first Training Director of UVM’s child psychiatry fellowship program.  He is the author of over 60 peer reviewed journal articles on a variety of mental health topics as well as two books, including Parenting Made Complicated: What Science Really Knows About the Greatest Debates of Early Childhood. He has served as the co-chair of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry’s (AACAP) Health Promotion and Prevention committee and was previously on their journal’s (JAACAP’s) editorial board.  Dr. Rettew did his general psychiatry and child & adolescent training at Harvard Medical School within the combined Massachusetts General/McLean Hospital programs.  Dr. Rettew writes a regular blog on Psychology Today that has over one and a half million views. 

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