Active clinical trials for "Substance-Related Disorders"

This research is being done to study whether using an Internet-based program, called the Therapeutic Education System (TES), would be helpful for the treatment of substance use and other psychiatric problems.

The purpose of this study is to quantify the serious risks of prescription opioid misuse or abuse or opioid use disorder (OUD) associated with the long term use of opioid analgesics for management of chronic pain, among patients prescribed opioid products.

This study proposes to recruit patients with Opioid Use Disorder (OUD) seeking treatment into our program of outpatient detoxification and naltrexone induction followed by a relapse-prevention treatment with Extended release-naltrexone (XR-NTX) . Eligible participants will be randomly assigned to adjunctive treatment with lorcaserin (N = 40), or placebo (N = 20) with weekly therapy.

The purpose of this 24-week study is to evaluate the impact of recovery coach intervention on rates of treatment retention, illicit opioid use, and readmission among hospitalized patients newly initiated on buprenorphine or methadone compared to the control intervention.

This treatment outcome evaluation of the Stonewall Project will recruit 150 participants to complete a face-to-face assessment visit at baseline, 3-month follow-up, and 6-month follow-up to examine treatment outcome with respect to HIV risk and substance use.

The purpose of this study is to compare different forms of treatment for substance abuse. This study will involve a type of treatment called contingency management, in which patients receive incentives (prizes) for attending outpatient treatment. This study will compare contingency management to standard treatment that does not involve incentives. This study will also compare contingency management treatment that lasts 6 weeks to contingency management that lasts 12 weeks. Finally, this study will compare contingency management treatment delivered at the beginning of outpatient treatment to contingency management treatment delivered later during outpatient treatment. The investigators hypothesize that (1) a 12-week attendance-based contingency management intervention will improve retention and enhance drug abstinence versus standard treatment, (2) initial short-term exposure to attendance-based contingency management (in weeks 1-6 only) will improve substance abuse treatment outcomes compared to standard treatment alone, and (3) contingency management in weeks 7-12 will be particularly useful for those with sporadic attendance or continued drug use during initial stages of treatment.

This is a two group randomized design that will compare a novel therapy package (i.e., Research supported treatment intervention, Contingency-based voucher incentives for the male partner's drug abstinence, Specialized MI couples counseling) to standard care for helping drug using partners of drug dependent pregnant women obtain and maintain drug abstinence. Participants will be followed for 22 weeks and have scheduled twice weekly urine sample collection and all participants will have follow-up interviews post-study entry.

For the past several years our research program has developed and tested an intensive outpatient intervention that is based in social learning theory and employs abstinence contingent access to recovery housing as a routine aspect of an intensive day treatment counseling program. The present project proposes to extend this treatment intervention to the special population of pregnant drug using women enrolled at the Center for Addiction and Pregnancy (CAP). We will compare an enhanced treatment that includes abstinence contingent recovery house living plus intensive individual therapy, to standard care at the CAP program. Specific aims of the project are derived from testing a two-group design are described below: To determine whether financially supported abstinence-contingent recovery house placement plus individual counseling in pregnant drug-dependent women improves prenatal outpatient treatment retention. To determine whether financially supported abstinence-contingent recovery house placement plus individual counseling in pregnant drug-dependent women reduces prenatal drug use. To determine whether financially supported abstinence-contingent recovery house placement plus individual counseling results in better maternal and infant clinical birth outcomes (e.g., birth weight, estimated gestational age (EGA) at delivery, medical complications).

The primary purpose of the study is to determine if the central feature of the Therapeutic Workplace, the abstinence reinforcement contingency, is critical to initiate cocaine abstinence in injection drug using methadone patients who use cocaine consistently during methadone treatment. All subjects initially will be invited to attend the Therapeutic Workplace for an initial period, but abstinence will not be required to work during that time. During this initial period, vouchers will be contingent only on workplace attendance and performance on the training programs. Subjects (n=70) who attend the workplace consistently during the first 4 weeks of treatment, but who continue to use cocaine will be randomly assigned to a Work Only or an Abstinence Plus Work group. Subjects in the Work Only group will continue to be able to work independent of their urinalysis results. However, subjects in the Abstinence Plus Work group will be required to provide urine samples that show evidence of recent cocaine abstinence. Subjects in both groups will be invited to stay in the workplace for 6 months. We expect the subjects in the Abstinence and Work group will achieve higher rates of abstinence than the subjects in the Work Only group. This result would show that the abstinence reinforcement contingency (i.e., the requirement to provide cocaine-free urine samples to work and earn vouchers) is important in the initiation of abstinence in the study population.

Contingency management interventions involve providing a tangible reward for progress toward treatment goals. The purpose of this study is to determine whether a contingency management intervention added to usual care leads to improved attendance and decreased substance use in patients attending outpatient substance use disorders treatment.