NCT04239235

Integrating Support Persons Into Recovery

Comparative Effectiveness of Significant Other-Enhanced OBOT in Primary Care

• Status: Active Not Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 422 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Stanford University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

INtegrated Support Persons Into Recovery (INSPIRE) is a 4-year research project that tests whether integrating a patient's support person into a patient's treatment with Buprenorphine/Naloxone can improve outcomes. The study will examine whether a counseling program called CRAFT for a support person, such as a family member, spouse or friend, can improve patient outcomes.

Detailed description

Opioid use disorders (OUDs) have reached an all-time high and have devastating effects on the individual, family, and community. While medication treatment for OUD saves lives, rates of treatment drop out are very high. In addition, existing OUD treatments neglect the impact of untreated OUD on the family, and ignore the potential role family members and support persons (SPs) could have on encouraging long-term recovery. Incorporating the patient's support system may be an important way to improve treatment retention. The proposed study evaluates a counseling program for concerned family members, spouses, and friends called Community Reinforcement and Family Training (CRAFT), which is successful at engaging and retaining patients in substance use treatment. While promising, no studies have evaluated whether CRAFT can help patients remain on medication treatment for OUD, provided by community health clinics. If effective, this could save lives and help both patient and family member health outcomes. Patient and SP pairs will be recruited from community health clinics throughout northern and southern California. Patients taking OUD medication treatment will be recruited and randomly assign half of the SPs to receive CRAFT; the other half would receive treatment-as-usual. Patients and SPs will be interviewed three and twelve months later to evaluate whether patients with CRAFT SPs stay in OUD treatment longer, and whether patient and SP health outcomes improve.

Conditions

• Opioid Addiction

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	CRAFT	CRAFT is an evidence-based and non-confrontational approach for teaching friends/family members strategies to help their loved one reduce/refrain from using substances. It focuses on improving the lives of both the friends/family members and the individual struggling with substance use.

Timeline

• Start date: 2021-02-15
• Primary completion: 2025-12-31
• Completion: 2026-01-31
• First posted: 2020-01-27
• Last updated: 2025-05-16

Locations

6 sites across 1 country: United States