Status:

TERMINATED

Reducing the Abuse of Opioids in Drug Users

Lead Sponsor:

The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio

Conditions:

Opioid Abuse, Unspecified

Opioid Dependence

Eligibility:

All Genders

21-65 years

Phase:

EARLY_PHASE1

Brief Summary

The consequences of prescription opioid abuse are serious and the number of deaths from unintended overdose have quadrupled over the last 15+ years. Opioid analgesics remain among the most commonly ab...

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion

  • Adult patients between 21 to 65 years of age, capable of understanding and providing consent in English, and capable of complying with the outcome instruments used.
  • Recreational opioid use (i.e. defined as prescription opioid use for nontherapeutic purposes on at least 10 occasions within the previous year and at least once in the 12 weeks prior to screening)
  • Reported tolerated doses to opioid medications

Exclusion

  • Currently receiving pharmacotherapy for psychiatric disorder, current suicide risk, or past history of major psychiatric disorder such as bipolar disorder/psychosis
  • Presence of dementia
  • Current neuroleptic medication in past 30 days
  • Pregnancy
  • Positive drug urine test for Barbiturates, Benzodiazepines, Methadone, and Buprenorphine.
  • Subjects with a prolonged QT interval greater than 430ms (i.e. QTc \>430ms)
  • Subjects with a heart rate of less than 60 or greater than 100bpm will be assessed by a physician for symptomatic bradycardia/tachycardia and eligibility determined on a case-by-case basis
  • Subjects with serum potassium and/or magnesium outside of normal range of our institutional laboratory within the past three months from time of screening.
  • Subjects who appears intoxicated on the day of study visit by an on-site physician.

Key Trial Info

Start Date :

April 1 2019

Trial Type :

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation :

ACTUAL

End Date :

January 21 2022

Estimated Enrollment :

3 Patients enrolled

Trial Details

Trial ID

NCT03837860

Start Date

April 1 2019

End Date

January 21 2022

Last Update

February 15 2022

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Westgate Pain Clinic

San Antonio, Texas, United States, 78229