NCT00249587

Medication Adherence Therapy for Opioid Abusing Pain Patients

• Status: Completed
• Phase: Phase 1 / Phase 2
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 36 (actual)
• Sponsor: National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) · NIH
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study is to develop and pilot test a combined behavioral and pharmacological intervention designed to decrease pain, functional interference, and drug abuse while increasing medication adherence.

Detailed description

Project Pain is a Stage I behavioral therapies development project aimed at developing and pilot testing a novel intervention for patients with chronic non-malignant pain who have experienced difficulty managing prescribed opioids. The goals of the study are to: (1) develop the intervention and training materials; (2) develop therapist adherence and competence scales; (3) train therapists to deliver the intervention per the treatment protocol; and (4) pilot the intervention to assess its feasibility, acceptability and promise. The goals of the intervention are to: (1) improve adherence to prescribed opioids; (2) decrease the severity of patients' pain; and (3) improve patients' functioning and quality of life .

Conditions

• Pain
• Chronic Disease
• Prescription Opioid Abuse

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DRUG	Methadone	dosed to effect, every six hours

Timeline

• Start date: 2000-09-01
• Primary completion: 2005-09-01
• Completion: 2005-09-01
• First posted: 2005-11-07
• Last updated: 2017-01-10

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States