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Opioid Use DisorderPhase 2BIPOD-OutNCT06067737

Outpatient Buprenorphine Induction With Psilocybin for Opioid Use Disorder

A Phase 2 study testing Psilocybin in people with Opioid Use Disorder, run by Johns Hopkins University at 1 site in United States.

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Trial summary

This study will examine the effect of a single high dose of psilocybin therapy (30 mg) versus a very low dose (1 mg) as an adjunctive therapy to individuals undergoing standard-of-care outpatient buprenorphine treatment for Opioid use disorder (OUD). Read more about this study

Who is it for?
Ages 21 to 70 years
Conditions the study is for
Opioid Use Disorder
What is being tested?
Psilocybin
Could I receive a placebo?
No, everyone receives an active treatment
How many people
90 participants
Where
1 siteUnited States
Study dates
8 Feb 2024to May 2029
Phase
Phase 2
Are there results?
Not yet: the study is under way

Key requirements

Who can take part, as listed by the sponsor. Only the study team can confirm whether you are eligible, so take this list to your doctor.

  • Ages 21 to 70 years
  • All sexes
  • No healthy volunteers
  • Adult, Older adult

Who may be able to join

  • Age 21-70 years
  • Have given written informed consent
  • Meet Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM)-5 criteria for OUD
  • No antidepressant medications for approximately 5 half-lives prior to enrollment
  • Willing to undergo buprenorphine induction, has undergone buprenorphine induction in the past 3 weeks, or are in buprenorphine treatment with ongoing use of other opioids (evidenced by positive urine toxicology for buprenorphine and another opioid at time of screen)
  • Reports previous buprenorphine maintenance
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  • Urine toxicology positive for an opioid
  • Has access to stable housing
  • Can read, write, and speak English fluently
  • Be judged by study team clinicians to be at low risk for suicidality
  • Have limited recent use of classic psychedelics (no use in the past year).
  • Expresses a desire for sustained recovery from disordered opioid use.

Who cannot join

  • General medical exclusion criteria:
  • Women who are pregnant, nursing, or not practicing an effective means of birth control
  • Cardiovascular conditions: hypertension with resting blood pressure systolic >139 or diastolic >89, angina, heart rate > 99, a clinically significant ECG abnormality (e.g., atrial fibrillation, QTc > 450), transient ischemic attack (TIA) in the last 6 months, stroke, peripheral or pulmonary vascular disease, cardiac valvulopathy
  • Epilepsy
  • Insulin-dependent diabetes; if taking oral hypoglycemic agent, then no history of hypoglycemia
  • Currently taking on a daily basis any medications (including herbal substances and supplements) with a central nervous system effect on serotonin, including serotonin-reuptake inhibitors and monoamine oxidase (MAO) inhibitors.
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  • For individuals who have intermittent or as needed (PRN) use of such medications, psilocybin sessions will not be conducted until at least 5 half-lives of the agent have elapsed after the last dose.
  • Currently taking efavirenz, Acetaldehyde dehydrogenase inhibitors such as disulfiram (Antabuse), Alcohol dehydrogenase inhibitors, or UDP-glucuronosyltransferase (UGT)1A9 inhibitors or UGT1A10 inhibitors such as phenytoin, regorafenib, eltrombopag.
  • Currently taking methadone or naltrexone.
  • Currently on longstanding buprenorphine maintenance (3+ weeks post-induction)
  • Naïve to buprenorphine
  • Reports of significant adverse events (severe withdrawal, medical complications, hospitalization) during previous buprenorphine induction(s).
  • Unable or unwilling to discontinue acid-reducing agents or major metabolizing enzyme inhibitors for 5-half lives prior to the experimental dosing session.
  • Have a seizure disorder, multiple sclerosis, history of significant head trauma, central nervous system (CNS) tumor, movement disorders or any neurodegenerative condition.
  • Morbidly obese (>100 lbs above ideal body weight, or Body Mass Index (BMI) >=40, or BMI >=35 with high blood pressure or diabetes)
  • Body weight < 45 kg
  • Be judged by a study team clinician to be at risk for moderate or severe alcohol or benzodiazepine withdrawal.
  • Allergic to buprenorphine
  • For blood samples, the following lab values will be exclusionary: transaminases greater than x2 the upper limit of normal lab reference range, hemoglobin less than 11 g/d, and creatinine clearance < 40 ml/min using the Cockraft and Gault equation.
  • Psychiatric Exclusion Criteria:
  • Current or past history of meeting DSM-5 criteria for Schizophrenia, Psychotic Disorder (unless substance-induced or due to a medical condition), Bipolar I or II Disorder or Major Depression with psychotic features.
  • Have a first or second degree relative with schizophrenia, psychotic disorder (unless substance induced or due to a medical condition), or bipolar I or II disorder.

Trial locations and contacts

1 site in 1 country. Contact the study team or a site near you to ask about taking part.

Andrew L Gaddis, MD contact

410-550-0048

gaddis@jhmi.edu

Sandeep Nayak, MD contact

410-550-0048

smn@jhmi.edu

United States1 site, 1 recruiting
  • Johns Hopkins Center for Psychedelic and Consciousness Research

    Baltimore, Maryland, 21224

    Sandeep Nayak, MD, 410-550-2253, smn@jhmi.edu

    Recruiting

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About this study

Official title: Outpatient Buprenorphine Induction With Psilocybin for Opioid Use Disorder: a Randomized Double-blind Trial

This study will examine the effect of a single high dose of psilocybin therapy (30 mg) versus a very low dose (1 mg) as an adjunctive therapy to individuals undergoing standard-of-care outpatient buprenorphine treatment for Opioid use disorder (OUD). The participants will have previously undergone buprenorphine induction before. Effects of adjunctive psilocybin will be determined for longitudinal outcomes of opioid abstinence, compliance with outpatient buprenorphine maintenance, quality of life, and mood.

Read the detailed description

The proposed study is a double-blind, controlled investigation of the effect of 1 high-dose psilocybin (30 mg) session compared to a very low dose session (1 mg) in the period immediately following standard-of-care outpatient buprenorphine induction on drug abstinence, quality of life, craving, tobacco use, and treatment retention in healthy participants with an active OUD diagnosis and a history of being prescribed buprenorphine previously. Use of buprenorphine is standard of care for OUD, and the investigators are investigating the additive power of adjunctive psilocybin to enhance opioid abstinence, treatment adherence, quality of life, and mood. Of note, this trial is designed with a parallel and complementary structure to IRB00344281 (BIPOD: Buprenorphine Induction with Psilocybin for Opioid use Disorder: A Randomized Controlled Clinical Trial"). The current proposed trial ("BIPOD-Out") differs in that it is tailored specifically to identify participants who have previously been prescribed and tolerated buprenorphine but subsequently relapsed.

The study will recruit participants who have very recently (past 3 weeks) undergone standard of care outpatient buprenorphine induction or are interested in undergoing buprenorphine induction by a study team physician and offer experimental psilocybin administration, as utilized in several other studies at this center. As noted above (and unlike in IRB00344281), participants naïve to buprenorphine will be excluded from this study. Outpatient buprenorphine induction will be followed by an 8-week outpatient phase involving standard of care buprenorphine maintenance with participants referred to further buprenorphine treatment in the community and followed in long-term follow-up for 4 to 6 months. The study team will recruit participants who have recently (past 3 weeks) been inducted onto sublingual (SL) buprenorphine (a buprenorphine/naloxone combination product) in the outpatient setting, and also participants interested in participating in a buprenorphine induction conducted by one of the study team physicians. Once buprenorphine induction is complete and participants are deemed eligible, participants will undergo 2-4 preparatory sessions (described below), followed by an experimental drug administration session under supportive conditions, during which the participants will receive either a very low dose (1 mg) or a single high (30mg) oral dose of psilocybin under double-blind conditions. Participants will then complete an 8-week outpatient phase, during which a study team clinician will provide standard of care outpatient buprenorphine maintenance. Participants will undergo outpatient visits at 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, and 8 weeks post-dosing session at the Behavioral Pharmacology Research Unit for monitoring of adverse events, clinical status, treatment adherence, and to receive a weekly supply of buprenorphine. All buprenorphine procedures will be open label and will follow standard-of-care practices.

Being tested
Psilocybin
Medical subject headings
Opioid-Related Disorders

What participants receive

What participants receive. In a randomised study each person is assigned to one group by chance.

  • PsilocybinDrug

    Also called buprenorphine

    High-dose psilocybin (30 mg) session will be administered following standard-of-care outpatient buprenorphine induction to evaluate its effect on drug abstinence, quality of life, craving, tobacco use, and treatment retention in healthy participants with an active OUD diagnosis.

  • PsilocybinDrug

    Also called buprenorphine

    A very low dose (1 mg) psilocybin session following standard-of-care outpatient buprenorphine induction will be used as a comparator arm to the high-dose psilocybin arm in evaluating psilocybin's effect on drug abstinence, quality of life, craving, tobacco use, and treatment retention in healthy participants with an active OUD diagnosis.

Study groups in NCT06067737
Study groupRoleWhat they receive
High-dose psilocybin + buprenorphineExperimentalHigh-dose psilocybin (30 mg) session following standard-of-care outpatient buprenorphine induction
Receives: Drug: Psilocybin
Very low-dose psilocybin + buprenorphineActive comparatorVery low dose psilocybin session (1 mg) following standard-of-care outpatient buprenorphine induction
Receives: Drug: Psilocybin

What is being measured

The primary outcome is the main question the study is designed to answer.

  1. Number of Participants Abstinent from Opioid Use

    Non-buprenorphine opioid abstinence as verified by urine toxicology at each visit and Timeline Follow Back (TLFB). These will be combined to assess opioid abstinence for each participant. These will be assessed at the 8-week timepoint for the previous 3-weeks. Missing values will be presumed positive.

    Timeline Follow Back (TLFB) for Opioids: This is a self-report of drug use per day. This procedure asks participants to retrospectively quantitate their use of drugs. Greater numbers indicate more days using a substance, smaller numbers or zeros mean less or no days using a substance

    Urine toxicology: Urine samples will be collected at each study visit and screened broadly for illicit drug use including opioids via an outside medical laboratory. Quantitative buprenorphine levels will also be collected following induction to gauge whether buprenorphine is being taken.

    Participants must meet both criteria to be considered abstinent.

    Measured: Up to 8 weeks

  2. Treatment retention

    Treatment retention at 8 weeks, as indicated by participants making all follow-up visits, indicating they are taking buprenorphine and with urine toxicology positive for buprenorphine.

    Measured: 8 weeks

  3. Number of Days Illicit Opioids Used

    Number of Days Illicit Opioids Used, as indicated by participant self-report and urine toxicology results

    Measured: 8 weeks

  4. Number of Negative Urine Toxicologies

    Number of Negative Urine Toxicologies, as indicated by results from weekly urine toxicologies collected for eight weeks

    Measured: Weekly up to 8 weeks

Secondary outcomes (4)
  1. Quality of Life as assessed by the World Health Organization Quality of Life Brief Version (WHOQOL-BREF)

    The World Health Organization Quality of Life Brief Version (WHOQOL-BREF) produces a multi-dimensional profile of scores across six domains and 24 sub-domains of quality of life, with higher scores representing a greater reported quality of life. Each individual item of the WHOQOL-BREF is scored from 1 to 5 on a response scale, which is stipulated as a five-point ordinal scale. The scores are then transformed linearly to a 0-100-scale.

    Measured: 8 weeks

  2. Depression as assessed by the Beck Depression Inventory II (BDII)

    The Beck Depression Inventory is a multi-item assessment for depression. Scores of 0-10 are considered within normal range, with higher scores representing worsening reported depression.

    Measured: 8 weeks

  3. Anxiety as assessed by the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI)

    The State-Trait Anxiety Inventory is a 40-item assessment of state and trait characteristics, with higher scores (more positive items) representing greater severity of mental states such as apprehension, tension, nervousness, and worry.

    Measured: 8 weeks

  4. Number of Participants Abstinent from Other Drug Substances

    Abstinence from other substances will be measured by combining TLFB and urine toxicology results to report the number of participants who were abstinent from other drug substances

    Measured: 8 weeks

Timeline

From the start of the study to its completion; the mark is today. Estimated dates are the sponsor’s plan.

  1. First posted5 Oct 2023
  2. Study start8 Feb 2024
  3. Primary completionJul 2028 (estimated)
  4. Study completionMay 2029 (estimated)

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More details

For doctors and researchers: how the study is designed, who runs it, and its registry IDs.

Study design
Study type
Interventional
Phase
Phase 2
Primary purpose
Treatment
Allocation
Randomised
Intervention model
Parallel groups
Model description
The proposed study is a double-blind, controlled investigation of the effect of 1 high-dose psilocybin (30 mg) session compared to a very low dose session (1 mg) following standard-of-care outpatient buprenorphine induction
Masking
Quadruple blind
Who is masked
Participant, Care provider, Investigator, Outcomes assessor
Enrolment
90 participants (estimated)
IDs, dates and publications
ClinicalTrials.gov ID
NCT06067737
Sponsor's protocol ID
IRB00399750
Acronym
BIPOD-Out
Status last verified
Jul 2026
First submitted
25 Sep 2023
Last updated
17 Jul 2026
Results posted
No
FDA-regulated drug
Yes
FDA-regulated device
No
Individual data sharing
No

Questions about this trial

What is this clinical trial studying?

A Phase 2 study testing Psilocybin in people with Opioid Use Disorder, run by Johns Hopkins University at 1 site in United States.

The full registered description is in the About this study section and the official record.

Who may be eligible to take part?

The sponsor lists 12 inclusion and 22 exclusion criteria. Eligibility is decided by the study team after screening, so read the full criteria and contact a listed site.

Is this clinical trial currently recruiting?

The record says: looking for participants now, as of the sponsor's last update on 17 Jul 2026. Status can change between updates, so confirm with the study contact before making plans.

Where is the study taking place?

The record lists 1 site in United States. Whether a site is taking part right now should be confirmed with that site. See every site.

What are the possible benefits and risks?

They depend on the study and the treatment, and no study can promise a benefit. The study team explains the known risks during informed consent, before anyone joins; the record itself does not list them.

What does this phase mean?

Phase 2 studies give the treatment to a larger group to see whether it has the intended effect and to keep checking safety.

Not every study follows the same path, and some studies (observational studies, device studies) have no phase.

Are results available for this study?

This study is still under way. Results are not available in the source record yet.

How can a doctor refer a patient or contact the research team?

Contact Andrew L Gaddis, MD (410-550-0048, gaddis@jhmi.edu), or a site near the patient. AzTrials does not enrol participants or take referrals.

What does the primary outcome measure?

Number of Participants Abstinent from Opioid Use (time frame: Up to 8 weeks). The study lists 4 primary outcomes in all. It is what the study was designed to measure, not a finding.

Where can I read the original study information?
Does a listing mean the treatment is approved or proven to work?

No. A listing means the study is registered. It does not show that the treatment is safe, works, or is approved by a regulator.

How often is this information updated?

AzTrials copies changed records from ClinicalTrials.gov every night and reloads the whole registry every week. The sponsor last updated this record on 17 Jul 2026.

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