Paula Riggs, MD

Publications

• Riggs P., The Life of the Party, In: Galanter, C., Jensen, P. (Eds.) DSM-5 TR Casebook and Treatment Guide for Child Mental Health (in press, February 2025)
• Editorial: Adolescent Substance Use Prevention and Treatment is Our Wheelhouse J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry, 2024 May 23:S0890-8567 (24)00259-4; doi:10,1016/j.jaac.2024.05.016. Carol Vidal, Aviva K. Olsavsky, Paula D. Riggs
• Riggs P., A Pragmatic Clinical Approach to Substance Abuse Prevention. In: Riggs P., Hinckley J.D., Ross J.M. (Eds.) (2023). Adolescent Cannabis Use. Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics. Philadelphia, PA: Elsevier.
• Riggs P., Epilogue. In: Riggs P., Hinckley J.D., Ross J.M. (Eds.) (2023). Adolescent Cannabis Use. Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics. Philadelphia, PA: Elsevier.
• Riggs P.D. A Pragmatic Approach to Substance Abuse Prevention for Clinicians IN Adolescent Cannabis Use. Eds. Riggs P.D., Hinckley J., Ross, JM. Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics of North America 1st edition, November 20, 2022 Elsevier
• Riggs P.D. Cannabis Use in Pediatric Outpatient Behavioral Health Settings. IN Cannabis in Psychiatric Practice: A Practical Guide, Paula Riggs (Editor), Thida Thant (Editor). Psychiatry Update 3 Series Editor: Michelle B. Riba, Springer International Publishing, 2022
• Stimulant Use in Teens & College Students: Problems and Treatment, Discussant, Clinical Perspectives 40, American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry 68th?Annual Meeting (Virtual)
• Novel findings from the ABCD Study: How Neuroscience Can Inform the Clinic. Discussant, Symposium 21, American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry 68th Annual Meeting
• Screening, Intervention, and Referral for Cannabis Use in an Evolving Environment. Presenter and Discussant, Member Services Forum 12, American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry 68th?Annual Meeting, October, 2021
• We SBIRE to Make SBIRT Work. Presentation in Clinical Perspectives 70, After Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT): You’ve Screened. Now What?, American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry 68th?Annual Meeting, October, 2021
• After Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT): You’ve Screened. Now What? Chair, Clinical Perspectives 70, American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry 68th?Annual Meeting, October, 2021
• The Vaping Epidemic. American Academy of Pediatrics, Colorado Chapter Annual Meeting
• Vaping Cessation: Innovative Motivational Approach to Engage Adolescents in Treatment. Session 3: Vaping: The Colorado Solution. The 2021 Cotton Conference, Children’s Hospital Colorado
• Innovations in Adolescent Substance Treatment. Presentation to the Treatment Workgroup, Colorado Consortium for Prescription Drug Abuse Prevention
• Youth Cannabis Use: What Busy Clinicians Need to Know in a Growing Post-Legalized Environment. Nevada Psychiatric Association 26th National Psychopharmacology Update
• When Substance Abuse Disorders Come to Pediatrics. Charting Pediatrics Podcast, with Debbie Singer, MD and Paula Riggs, MD S4: E16
• Best Practice Substance Treatment for Adolescents and Overcoming Barriers to Treatment Engagement. Langone Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Grand Rounds, New York University
• Best Practice Substance Treatment for Adolescents with Co-occurring Psychiatric and Substance Use Disorders. Children’s Hospital of Pennsylvania (CHOP) Child Adolescent Psychiatry Grand Rounds
• Let’s SBIRE to Make SBIRT Even Better: Clinical Tools and Tips for More Effective Brief Interventions and Treatment Referral. CDPHE SBIRT-SBHC Learning Collaborative
• Best Practice Substance Treatment for Adolescents with Co-occurring Psychiatric and Substance Use Disorders. SUNY Downstate Psychiatry Grand Rounds
• Bonn-Miller M.O., Sisley S., Riggs P., et al. The short-term impact of 3 smoked cannabis preparations versus placebo on PTSD symptoms: A randomized cross-over clinical trial. PLOS ONE, 16th (3):e0246990.PMCID:PMC7968689
• Riggs P. (2019). Editorial: Prescription for addiction. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 58(7):659-660.
• Riggs, P. "Prescription for Addiction", Journal of the American Academy of Child Adolescent Psychiatry (JAACAP), in press, 2019
• Hinckley, J; Riggs, P. "Youth and Substance Use" IN Child Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics of North America; Editors Dineen-Wagner and Ng, in press
• Hopfer C., Hinckley J., Riggs P.D. (2018). “Substance Use Disorders”. Chapter 5.8 in: A. Martin, M.H. Bloch, F.R. Volkmar (Eds.), Lewis’s Child and Adolescent Psychiatry: A Comprehensive Textbook, Fifth Edition. Philadelphia, PA: Wolters Kluwer.
• Mikulich-Gilbertson, S.K., Wagner, B.D., Grunwald, G.K., Riggs, P.D., Zerbe, G.O. (2018). On using empirical Bayes predictors from generalized linear mixed models to test and visualize associations among longitudinal outcomes. Statistical Methods in Medical Research, doi: 10.1177/0962280218758357
• Al-Tayyib A., Riggs P., Mikulich-Gilbertson S., Hopfer C. (2018). Prevalence of nonmedical use of prescription opioids and association with co-occurring substance use disorders among adolescents in substance use treatment. Journal of Adolescent Health, 62(2):241-244. PMCID: PMC5803361
• Hopfer C., Hinckley J., Riggs P.D. (2018). "Substance Use Disorders". Chapter 5.8 in: A. Martin, F.R. Volkmar, M.H. Bloch (Eds.), Lewis's Child and Adolescent Psychiatry: A Comprehensive Textbook, Fifth Edition. Philadelphia, PA: Wolters Kluwer.
• Lenoue S.R., Riggs, P.D. (2017). "Adolescent Substance Use Disorders". Chapter 55.5 in: B.J. Sadock, V.A. Sadock, P. Ruiz (Eds.), Kaplan & Sadock's Comprehensive Textbook of Psychiatry, Tenth Edition, Volume I. Philadelphia, PA: Wolters Kluwer.
• Al-Tayyib A., Riggs P., Mikulich-Gilbertson S., Hopfer C. Prevalence of non-medical prescription opioid use among adolescents in treatment. Journal of Adolescent Health Nov 22, 2017
• Wagner B., Kroehl M., Gan R., Mikulich-Gilbertson S., Sagel S., Riggs P., Brown T., Snell-Bergeon J., Zerbe G. (2017). A multivariate generalized linear model approach to mediation analysis and application of confidence ellipses. Statistics in Biosciences, First Online: 10 May 2017
• Al-Tayyib A., Koester S., Riggs, P. (2017). Prescription opioids prior to injection drug use: Comparisons and public health implications. Addictive Behaviors, 65:224-228. PMCID: PMC5140757 [Available on 2018-02-01]
• Riggs P. (2016). “Life of the Party. Chronic Marijuana Use”. Chapter 7 in: C. Galanter, P. Jensen, (Eds.), DSM-5 Casebook and Treatment Guide for Child Mental Health. Arlington, VA: American Psychiatric Association Publishing
• Benningfield MM, Riggs P, Stephan SH (2015)The role of schools in substance use prevention and intervention Child Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics of North America. 24 (2): 291-303 doi 10.1016/j.chc.2014,12.004 2015
• LeNoue SR, Riggs PD. Substance Abuse Prevention. Child Adolesc Psychiatr Clin N Am. 2016 Apr;25(2):297-305. PubMed PMID: 26980131
• Robinson ZD, Riggs PD. Cooccurring Psychiatric and Substance Use Disorders. Child Adolesc Psychiatr Clin N Am. 2016 Oct;25(4):713-22. PubMed PMID: 27613347
• Hsiao RC, Riggs PD. The Changing Landscape of Adolescent Substance Treatment. Child Adolesc Psychiatr Clin N Am. 2016 Oct;25(4):xv-xvi. PubMed PMID: 27613353
• Al-Tayyib A., Koester S, Riggs, P. (2016). Prescription opioids prior to injection drug use: Comparisons and public health implications. Addictive Behaviors, DOI:http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.addbeh.2016.08.016
• Riggs, PD. Want Change? Try Honey Instead of Vinegar. Invited Editorial JAACAP Vol 54, Issue 6; 440-441, June, 2015
• Wagner B, Riggs, P Mikulich-Gilbertson, S. The importance of distribution-choiice in modelilng substance use data: a comparison of negative binomial, beta binomial, and zero-inflated distributions. The American Jour. Of Drug and Alcohol Abuse. Posted online July 8, 2015 (doi; 10 3109/00952990.2015.1056557)
• L Tamm L, K Trello-Rishel, K, P Riggs, P Nakonezny, M Acosta, G Bailey, T Winhusen. Predictors of treatment response in adolescents with comorbid substance use disorder and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder. Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment, 44 (2013) 224-230
• Riggs P.D., Winhusen T., Davies R.D., et al. Randomized Controlled Trial of Osmotic-Release Methylphenidate with Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy in Adolescents with Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder and Substance Use Disorders. Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 50(9): 903-914, 2011
• Winhusen, T., Lewis, D.F., Riggs, P.D., Davies, R.D., Adler, L.A., Sonne, S., Somoza, E.C. Subjective Effects, Misuse, and Adverse Effects of Osmotic-Release Methylphenidate Treatment in Adolescent Substance Abusers with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder. Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychopharmacology, 21(5): 455-63, 2011. PMCID: PMC3243465
• Gray K.M., Riggs P.D., et al Cigarette and cannabis use trajectories among adolescents in treatment for ADHD and substance use disorders. Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 117 (2-3):242-247, 2011
• Prevention Adolescent Substance Use Disorders Lenoue,and Riggs Child Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics of North America (in press, 2016)
• Treatment of Co-occurring Psychiatric Disorders in Adolescents with Substance Use Disorders Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics of North America (in press)
• Hinckley J., Hopfer C., Riggs P.D. (in press). "Adolescent Substance Use Disorders" Chapter 5.8 in: A Martin, F., Volkmar, M Lewis (Eds.), Lewis's Child and Adolescent Psychiatry: A Comprehensive Textbook, Fifth Edition, Baltimore, MD: LIppincott Williams & Wilkins
• Rapp EK, Riggs P. Cannabis Use and Psychiatric Illness. IN: What Clinicians Need to Know About Cannabis. Finn,K (Ed), Springer Press
• Thant T, Riggs P. Epilogue: The medical cannabis landscape. IN: What Clinicians Need to Know About Cannabis. Finn, K (Ed). Springer
• Riggs P.D. Cannabis Use in Pediatric Outpatient Behavioral Health Settings. IN Cannabis in Psychiatric Practice, Thant T, Riggs P. Editors. Cannabis in Psychiatric Practice, Springer Scientific (in press)
• Lenoue S.R., Riggs P.D. (In press). Adolescent Substance Use Disorders. Chapter 55.5 in: B.J. Sadock, V.A. Sadock, P. Ruiz (Eds.), Kaplan & Sadock’s Comprehensive Textbook of Psychiatry, 11th Edition, Volume 1. Philadelphia, PA: Wolters Kluwer, 2021
• Riggs, P. Practical Clinical Principles of Prevention. IN Adolescent Cannabis Use Disorder. Eds: Riggs, P, Hinckley, J. and Ross, JM, Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics of North America (CAPCNA) (in press).
• Susan K. Mikulich-Gilbertson, Brandie D. Wagner, Gary K. Grunwald, Paula D. Riggs, Gary O. Zerbe. On Using Empirical Bayes Predictors from Generalized Linear Mixed Models to Test and Visualize Associations among Longitudinal Outcomes Statistical Methods in Medical Research in press
• Riggs P., Life of the Party, In: Galanter, C., Jensen, P. (Eds.) DSM-5 TR Casebook and Treatment Guide for Child Mental Health (in press)
• Enhancing Methods for Research on Cannabis: A Workshop Report. Samet J; Barrington-Trimis, J; Bero, L; Brooks-Russell, A; Buran, M, Dilley, J; Erickson, D; Heustis, M; Hutchison, K; Jeanne, T; Kosnett, M; Kroll, D; Lankenau, S; Meich, R; Liccardo, Pacula, R; Riggs, P; Soleimanpour,N; Teutsch, S; Tung, G; Wang, G. Addiction in press MS ADD-24-1227

Practice Locations

CU Medicine Psychiatry - Outpatient Clinic
1890 N Revere Ct
Anschutz Health Sciences Bldg, Suite 4020
Aurora, CO 80045
303-724-1000

Hospital Affiliation

• University of Colorado Hospital

Specialty Information

Specialties

• Psychiatry