NCT01442493

Reengineering Methadone Treatment Study of Patient-centered Methadone Treatment

Reengineering Methadone Treatment: A Randomized Clinical Trial

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 300 (actual)
• Sponsor: Friends Research Institute, Inc. · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The purpose of the study is to determine whether a change in the rules and staff roles in methadone treatment programs will result in greater lengths of stay in treatment and lower rates of heroin and cocaine use, crime and HIV-risk behavior as compared to methadone treatment as usual.

Detailed description

Early drop-out and premature discharge from methadone treatment is common in the United States and may be associated with drug use and its associated problems. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of a novel approach to the organization methadone treatment in which the patient rules and staff roles of the clinic will be modified for study participants as compared to patients receiving standard methadone treatment.

Conditions

• Opiate Dependence

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Patient-Centered Methadone Treatment	Unlike in treatment as usual, counseling will be encouraged but not required and counselors will be responsible for enforcing the clinic's rules. The rules will be enforced by the Clinical Director. Clinic rules will be modified such that involuntary discharge from treatment will be a rare event.
OTHER	Methadone Treatment as usual	Counseling will be required and counselors will enforce the usual clinic rules. Involuntary discharge may occur for ongoing drug use or rule infractions as usually occurs in the clinic.

Timeline

• Start date: 2011-09-01
• Primary completion: 2015-04-01
• Completion: 2015-08-01
• First posted: 2011-09-28
• Last updated: 2017-12-29
• Results posted: 2017-09-18

Locations

2 sites across 1 country: United States