Status:

WITHDRAWN

Assessing the Impact of Varenicline on Brain-Behavior Vulnerability

Lead Sponsor:

University of Pennsylvania

Collaborating Sponsors:

National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)

Conditions:

Varenicline and the Blunting of Cocaine Cues

Eligibility:

MALE

18-55 years

Phase:

PHASE2

Brief Summary

Our proposal will enable us to study cocaine patients to determine whether varenicline can weaken brain arousal to drug cues in an fMRI imaging setting, which is what we theorize. This supplement supp...

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion

  • Physically healthy male substance abuse subjects age 18-55.

Exclusion

  • 1\) Participation in clinical trial and receipt of investigational drug(s) during previous 60 days 2) Clinically significant cardiovascular, hematologic, hepatic, renal, neurological or endocrinological abnormalities 3) History of serious head trauma or injury causing loss of consciousness that lasted more than 3 minutes. 4) Presence of magnetically active prosthetics, plates, pins, broken needles, permanent retainer, bullets, etc. in subject's body (unless a radiologist confirms that its presence is unproblematic). A x-ray may be obtained to determine eligibility. 5) Claustrophobia or other medical condition disabling subject from lying in the MRI for approximately 60 minute

Key Trial Info

Start Date :

December 1 2007

Trial Type :

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation :

ACTUAL

End Date :

December 1 2013

Estimated Enrollment :

Patients enrolled

Trial Details

Trial ID

NCT00895557

Start Date

December 1 2007

End Date

December 1 2013

Last Update

September 8 2016

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University of Pennsylvania Treatment Research Center

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, 19104