Status:

RECRUITING

Low-dose Buccal Buprenorphine: Relative Abuse Potential and Analgesia

Lead Sponsor:

Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Collaborating Sponsors:

National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)

Conditions:

Analgesia

Abuse Opioids

Eligibility:

All Genders

18-65 years

Phase:

PHASE4

Brief Summary

The goal of this study is to compare the abuse potential of low-dose equianalgesic buccal buprenorphine to a commonly used full mu opioid receptor (MOR) agonist in a highly controlled experimental set...

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion

  • Intact cognitive status and ability to provide informed consent
  • Ability to read and write in English sufficiently to understand and complete study questionnaires
  • Age 18-65
  • Opioid-naive status (defined as no use of full mu-opioid receptor (MOR) agonist, partial MOR agonist, or mixed agonist/antagonist medications for the prior 3 months by patient report

Exclusion

  • Liver/kidney disease
  • Chronic pain
  • Current/prior substance use disorder
  • Pregnancy (to avoid fetal drug exposure, with pregnancy tests conducted to confirm eligibility)
  • Seizure disorder
  • Certain psychiatric conditions (severe depression, bipolar disorder, psychotic disorders)
  • Recent use of medications that may interfere with study drug metabolism
  • Recent benzodiazepine or opioid use (confirmed via rapid urine screening prior to each lab session)
  • The presence of any medical conditions felt by the study physician to render participant unsafe
  • Prior allergic reaction or intolerance to oxycodone, buprenorphine, or their analogs (explicitly including moderate-to-severe nausea or vomiting with prior opioids)
  • Recent use of marijuana, delta-8 THC, CBD, and similar products
  • Recent use of kratom
  • Severe asthma
  • Long QT syndrome
  • Parkinson disease
  • Weight \<60 kg

Key Trial Info

Start Date :

October 19 2023

Trial Type :

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation :

ESTIMATED

End Date :

October 1 2026

Estimated Enrollment :

120 Patients enrolled

Trial Details

Trial ID

NCT05988710

Start Date

October 19 2023

End Date

October 1 2026

Last Update

December 12 2024

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Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Nashville, Tennessee, United States, 37069