Trials / Completed
CompletedNCT00018824
Treating Alcohol Use In Older Adults With Depression
The Treatment of Late Life Major Depression Complication by Alcohol
- Status
- Completed
- Phase
- Phase 4
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 74 (actual)
- Sponsor
- US Department of Veterans Affairs · Federal
- Sex
- All
- Age
- 55 Years
- Healthy volunteers
- Not accepted
Summary
The purpose of this study is to test the efficacy combining a treatment for depression with a treatment for alcohol dependence.
Detailed description
This study aims to study 80 patients with comorbid alcohol dependence and a depressive syndrome. After appropriate detoxification, patients are started on either naltrexone 50 mg or placebo. After one week, sertraline is added in an open label fashion. It is hypothesized that those patients receiving combination therapy will last 3 months with follow-up tracking lasting 1 year.
Conditions
Interventions
| Type | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| DRUG | NALTREXONE | |
| DRUG | Placebo |
Timeline
- Start date
- 1999-10-01
- Primary completion
- 2005-01-01
- Completion
- 2005-01-01
- First posted
- 2001-07-05
- Last updated
- 2009-09-23
Locations
1 site across 1 country: United States
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT00018824. Inclusion in this directory is not an endorsement.