August 2025: Telehealth Prescribing of Stimulants for ADHD and Associated Risk for Later Stimulant and Substance Use Disorders

Dr. Vinod Rao (Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston) join AJP Audio to discuss predicting the relative risk of patients with an ADHD diagnosis developing a later stimulant or substance use disorder based on the method of prescription, in person or via telehealth. Afterwards, AJP Editor-in-Chief Dr. Ned Kalin discusses the rest of the August issue of the Journal. 00:07 Rao interview 01:53 Stimulant use disorder versus substance use disorder 02:59 Cohort size and incidence of SUDs 04:28 Length of clinician engagement in non-profit versus for profit hospital systems 05:18 Patient cohort 06:20 Potential difference in mechanism between prescribing practices 07:35 Continued use of telehealth 08:43 Limitations 10:03 Further research 11:17 Kalin interview 11:24 Rao et al. 15:41 Mahjani et al. 19:59 Zhang et al. 25:11 Sha et al. 29:33 Gao and Olfson Transcript Be sure to let your colleagues know about the podcast, and please rate and review it on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen to it.

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August 2025: Telehealth Prescribing of Stimulants for ADHD and Associated Risk for Later Stimulant and Substance Use Disorders is an episode from American Journal of Psychiatry Audio by American Psychiatric Association Publishing.

This episode is 33:44 long.

This episode was published on Aug 1, 2025.

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