View clinical trials related to Substance Use Disorders.
Filter by:Substance use disorder (SUD) affects more than 23 million Americans and claims more than 70,000 lives annually. With 40-60% relapse rate, SUD patients are high hospital utilizers, 65% of the incarcerated population, and are at high-risk for overdose and deaths. There is a pressing need for research in this area to advance beyond traditional pharmacological and behavioral therapies toward a greater focus on the mechanisms of risk for relapse and to improve personalization for SUD treatment. Neuromodulation has shown promise to stimulate neuronal growth without any of the side effects of medications or electroconvulsive therapy. Using transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) to modulate cortical activity has shown to be a viable therapy in medicine-resistant depression, to reduce opioid cravings, and impulse control. The proposed research plans to recruit 30 subjects with a history of substance use disorder (SUD). This may include a history of addiction to opioids, cocaine, and barbiturates. Addiction to alcohol and cannabinoids (marijuana) will be excluded from this study. Following recruitment and consent, the subject will be administered an EEG, Acceptance Commitment Therapy exercise followed by EEG, and a BIS-11 Survey measuring levels of impulsivity. During the next week, the patient will undergo 5 visits consisting of a pre-EEG, tDCS, and post-EEG. Half of the subjects (n=15) will receive treatment, while the other half will be in a sham group. After the completion of the 5 tDCS visits, the patient will again be administered an EEG, ACT exercise followed by EEG, and a final BIS-11 survey measuring for end impulsivity levels.
The goal of this clinical trial is to use a novel virtual reality intervention to test for efficacy in reducing stimulant use and increasing abstinence, with concomitant increases in future self-identification, future time perspective, and delay-of-reward, in early recovering stimulant use disorder (StUD) persons. The main question[s] this trial aims to answer are: - Will the Virtual Reality (VR) intervention decrease the number of stimulant use days? - Will the VR intervention produce longer abstinence periods during follow-up visits? - Will the VR intervention increase stimulant drug abstinence rates? - Will the VR intervention increase future self-identification? - Will the VR intervention increase self-reported future time perspective? - Will the VR intervention increase preference for delayed rewards in a laboratory delay discounting task on the study day? - Will the VR intervention produce gains in the behavioral effects of future self-identification, future time perspective, and delayed rewards at the 30-day and 6-month follow-ups? Researchers will compare the experimental and control groups to see if there are differences in the results for the questions outlined above.
The aim of the study is to compare couple-based treatment to individual treatment (treatment as usual) for addiction (gambling or substance use disorder).
This research outcomes can be summarized as follows: 1. Pharmacogenomic analysis of Substance Use Disorder (SUD) and medications used for the treatment of SUD. 2. Identification of novel genetic variations related to SUD specifically in the Egyptian population. 3. Validation of currently known genetic variations associated with SUD. When the functional interpretation of common or rare variants in studied genes becomes available, such pharmacogenomic information can be used to improve pharmacotherapy individualization.
The purpose of this research study is to investigate if a personalized intervention including parts such as navigation (focus on patient outreach efforts, missed and completed encounters), personalization (individual health benefits) and compensation (value health-related costs borne by patients) will help people reduce their chances of dying from preventable causes, including heart attacks, strokes, drinking alcohol, substance abuse, HIV, and other conditions.
This study will implement a pilot randomized controlled trial (RCT, N=70) to refine and assess the feasibility and acceptability of an emotion regulation and communication skills intervention designed to improve engagement in HIV-care among substance using HIV+ PWID sub-optimally engaged in HIV care.
This is a multi-phased study, funded through a National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) K24 grant that aims to ultimately refine a virtual reality tool through qualitative and quantitative research targeting HIV and substance abuse risk behavior among at-risk young people who have experienced psychosocial trauma. Participants eligible for this study include young men who have sex with men (YMSM) and adolescents with substance use disorder (SUD) between the ages of 13 - 25 and have experienced at least one traumatic event in their lifetime. Frontline healthcare workers who work within these populations are eligible for the study as well.
The aim of this study is to examine the effect of brain awareness intervention on metacognition, self-efficacy and treatment motivation in patients with alcohol and substance use disorders. It is an experimentally designed study with a randomized control group and repeated measurements (pre-test, mid-test, post-test).
PTSD and substance use disorders (SUD) are two of the most common and debilitating mental health conditions afflicting military Veterans. PTSD and SUD frequently co-occur and are associated with poorer treatment outcomes. The investigators' team developed a trauma-focused intervention, Concurrent Treatment of PTSD and Substance Use Disorders Using Prolonged Exposure (COPE), which is identified by the VA as a gold standard of behavioral healthcare. However, a critical barrier to ensuring that Veterans with co-occurring PTSD/SUD receive evidence-based treatment is a lack of provider training. This project directly addresses this critical gap by developing a new web-based training program for providers (COPEWeb).
The goal of this interventional study is twofold with the evaluation of the feasibility and potential usefulness of an implementation strategy, and the efficiency of a community-based model of mass screening and immediate treatment of hepatitis C among People Who Use Drugs (PWUD) in three major cities in mainland France (Paris, Lyon and Marseille) and in one overseas city (Fort-de-France). The investigators will also describe the psychological and infectious comorbidities of drug users, determine the stages of the HCV (Hepatitis C Virus), HBV (Hepatitis B Virus), HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus) care cascade, and analyze the factors associated with HCV treatment failure. A qualitative study will investigate the acceptability of the RDS model. Participants will be screened in an out of bound research center and receive appropriate treatment for infectious, addictological and psychiatric troubles. They will receive coupons to give to their peers for them to participate in the study. Researchers will also compare the acceptability of referral to psychiatric care directly at the research site (intervention group) with that of referral directly to a city facility (control group).