Youth Cannabis Use: What Do We Know and What Should We Do?

Dr. Kevin M. Gray is professor and director of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston, South Carolina. With a multidisciplinary group of collaborators, Dr. Gray conducts National Institutes of Health-supported clinical research, contributing novel advances to treatments for substance use disorders in adolescents and young adults. Dr. Gray is co-chair of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP) Substance Use Committee, serves on the Board of Directors of the American Academy of Addiction Psychiatry, is a standing member of the National Institutes of Health Interventions to Prevent and Treat Addictions Study Section, is associate editor of the Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychopharmacology, and serves as chair of the Advisory Committee for the AACAP Physician Scientist Program in Substance Abuse K12 Award program. In addition to maintaining an active clinical practice and research program, Dr. Gray is dedicated to education, providing didactic instruction across training programs and mentoring multiple junior faculty and trainees in clinical research.

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Harold Koplewicz, MD, Ron Steingard, MD, and John Q. Young, MD, have nothing to disclose. Kevin Gray, MD, has nothing to disclose.

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