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Opioid Use Disorders (OUD) cause significant burden to individuals, families, and the society. Our product - Computerized Chemosensory-Based Orbitofrontal Cortex Training (CBOT) - offers a cost-saving, home-based, user-friendly brain stimulation system that increased 6-month treatment retention of OUDs in a pilot study; and also, acutely reduced opioid withdrawal severity and negative affect during induction into opioid maintenance therapy. This study will establish its effectiveness in a broad category of OUD subjects at different stages of OUD care continuum.


Clinical Trial Description

Evon Medics proposes to evaluate the effectiveness of Computerized Chemosensory-Based Orbitofrontal Cortex Training (CBOT), as an alternative strategy for relapse prevention in patients with Opioid Use (OUD) and other substance use disorders (SUD). This treatment leverages the overlap in brain regions that process smell and mediate decision making. The CBOT is portable and can be used at home. This clinical trial is being conducted to demonstrate its utility for home application by nontreatment seeking and treatment-seeking OUD populations, to engage in long-term, successful opioid recovery. Key objectives of this project are to: (1) establish the effectiveness of CBOT for improved retention and relapse prevention in a large sample of OUD subjects; (2) establish its effectiveness for acute reduction of withdrawal severity and negative affect early in recovery; and (3) evaluate its safety, user-friendliness and acceptability. Accomplishment of these goals would lead to larger clinical trials for OUD and wider applications of CBOT in other addictive disorders. ;


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NCT number NCT04850664
Study type Interventional
Source Evon Medics LLC
Contact Evaristus A Nwulia, MD, MHS
Phone 410-227-2005
Email enwulia@evonmedics.org
Status Recruiting
Phase Phase 2
Start date March 26, 2021
Completion date December 31, 2022

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