Clinical trials: Adolescent Substance Abuse
Substance Abuse
Youth Substance Use Prevention/Reduction Through Science-based Drug Abuse Education
Our primary goal is to conduct a pilot study of the effects of a new potential strategy for youth substance abuse prevention - science-based drug education integrated into the high school science curriculum.
- Trial name
- NCT00612482
- Testing
- drug prevention curriculum
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 225 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Boston Children's Hospital
Adolescent Substance Use
Guiding Good Choices for Health
This study evaluates the feasibility and effectiveness of implementing Guiding Good Choices (GGC), an anticipatory guidance curriculum for parents of early adolescents, in three large, integrated healthcare systems.
- Trial name
- GGC4H (NCT04040153)
- Testing
- Guiding Good Choices
- Where
- 3 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 3,636 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Washington
Substance Use, Delinquency
Family-Based Juvenile Drug Court Services
The objective of the proposed study is to adapt and implement an efficacious adolescent substance abuse treatment, Multidimensional Family Therapy (MDFT), within the juvenile drug court service system.
- Trial name
- JDC (NCT01668303)
- Testing
- Miami Juvenile Drug Court-MDFT, Miami Juvenile Drug Court -TAU
- Where
- 4 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 112 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Miami
Cannabis Use Disorder, Mild, Cannabis Use Disorder, Moderate
Pilot Test of Parent-Focused Cannabis-Related Actions and Practices Intervention for Adolescent Marijuana Abuse
The randomized clinical trial involves the pilot-testing of a theory-guided, empirically based, and low-cost intervention designed for legal medical marijuana-using parents to enhance parenting behaviors that limit youth exposure…
- Trial name
- CAP (NCT04923230)
- Testing
- Cannabis Actions and Practices Resource for Parents
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 120 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Oregon Research Institute
Substance Abuse
Preventing Drug Abuse Among Sexual Minority Youth
The planned randomized clinical trial will longitudinally test a tailored, web-based drug abuse prevention program with a nationwide sample of 15- to 17-year-old sexual minority youth (youth who identify as gay, lesbian…
- Trial name
- NCT03954535
- Testing
- Free2b
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 1,216 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Columbia University
Marijuana Abuse
Treatment for Adolescent Marijuana Abuse
Marijuana remains the most prevalent illicit substance used by adolescents and the number of adolescents receiving treatment for marijuana abuse more than tripled during the last decade.
- Trial name
- NCT00580671
- Testing
- MET/CBT, CM, BPT
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 153 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center
Substance Use
Drug Abuse Prevention Among Girls Through a Mother-Daughter Intervention
The purpose of this study is to determine a computer- and family-based drug abuse prevention program is able to reduce drug use among early adolescent girls.
- Trial name
- NCT01236248
- Testing
- Prevention
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 916 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Columbia University
Adolescent Substance Use
The Neuroeconomics of Behavioral Therapies for Adolescent Substance Abuse
This study will measure the brain activity of adolescent substance abusers while they make decisions about their preferences to receive smaller, immediate rewards versus larger delayed rewards.
- Trial name
- Imaging (NCT01093898)
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 51 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center
Obesity, Adolescent, Healthy Nutrition
Wakaya: Rising Up for Choctaw Youth Health
Investigators will conduct a two-group randomized waitlist-control trial to assess the efficacy of the Wakaya: Rising Up for Choctaw Youth Health program on improving physical activity, reducing sedentary behaviors and improving…
- Conditions
- Obesity, Adolescent, Healthy Nutrition, Sedentary Behavior, Drug Abuse
- Trial name
- Wakaya (NCT05818384)
- Testing
- Wakaya: Rising Up for Choctaw Youth Curriculum
- Where
- 2 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 176 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Washington
Cannabis Use
Feasibility and Acceptability of the Cannabis Awareness and Prevention Toolkit
The Stanford Smart Talk Cannabis Awareness and Prevention Curriculum includes 5 lessons, each providing activities, online quiz games, and worksheets in addition to presentations, resources, and other materials aimed at…
- Trial name
- NCT05521321
- Testing
- Stanford Smart Talk Cannabis Awareness and Prevention curriculum
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 658 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Stanford University
Substance Abuse
Adolescent Involvement in Parental Substance Abuse Treatment
Given the reciprocal nature of parent-child interaction, involvement of the adolescent in their mother's substance abuse treatment plan might be associated with reductions in adult relapse and improvements in child functioning.
- Trial name
- NCT01576393
- Testing
- Home-based Family Therapy, office-based family therapy, WHE
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 183 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Ohio State University
Cannabis, Cannabis Intoxication
Do Adolescents and Adults Differ in Their Acute Response to Cannabis?
The acute effects of cannabis may differ between adolescents and adults. Furthermore, these effects may be tempered by the presence of cannabidiol.
- Conditions
- Cannabis, Cannabis Intoxication, Cannabis Use, Cannabis Dependence
- Trial name
- CannTeenA (NCT04851392)
- Testing
- Cannabis with delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) and cannabidiol (CBD), Cannabis with THC without CBD
- Where
- United Kingdom
- Volunteers
- 48 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University College, London
Alcohol Abuse, Criminalism
Survey of Adolescent Living in Vestmanland
The interaction of MAO-A genotype and psychosocial risk, in relation to male adolescent criminality The interaction of 5-HTTLPR genotype and psychosocial risk in relation to excessive adolescent alcohol consumption The…
- Conditions
- Alcohol Abuse, Criminalism, Depression
- Trial name
- SALVe (NCT01306812)
- Where
- Sweden
- Volunteers
- healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Uppsala University
Drug Abuse
Brief Intervention for Drug Abusing Adolescents
The purpose of this clinical trail is to evaluate the efficacy of a brief, cognitive-behavioral therapeutic intervention for adolescents reporting mild or moderate drug abuse (MMDA).
- Trial name
- NCT00350909
- Testing
- brief intervention (cognitive-behavioral therapy)
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 160 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Minnesota
HIV Infections, Hepatitis
Comparative Effectiveness of Web-based Versus Traditional Adolescent HIV Prevention
This study will evaluate the comparative effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of a customized, interactive web-based HIV, sexually transmitted infections (STI) and hepatitis prevention intervention as compared to a traditional…
- Conditions
- HIV Infections, Hepatitis, Sexually Transmitted Infections
- Trial name
- NCT01142882
- Testing
- Traditional Prevention, Web-based Prevention
- Where
- 3 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 120 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- National Development and Research Institutes, Inc.
Alcoholism, Substance Abuse
Recognition and Early Intervention for Alcohol and Substance Abuse in Adolescence in Adolescent
ASSIST mini-intervention is applied in an electric form in adolescent outpatients to see if it
- Conditions
- Alcoholism, Substance Abuse, Alcohol Dependence, Alcohol-Related Disorders
- Trial name
- REAL-SMART (NCT06262958)
- Testing
- ASSIST, Treatment as usual
- Where
- Finland
- Volunteers
- 800 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Kuopio University Hospital
Prevention, Family Function
Familias Unidas: Preventing Substance Abuse in Hispanic Youth
The focus of this study will be to test the Familias Unidas Intervention program among Hispanic 8th graders in the Miami-Dade County Public School System.
- Conditions
- Prevention, Family Function, Substance Use, Sexual Behavior
- Trial name
- NCT01038206
- Testing
- Familias Unidas
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 746 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Miami
Adolescent Behaviors, Substance Abuse
Linking Families Together Study- A Randomized Trial to Raise Parental Monitoring
In this study, we will evaluate the efficacy and sustainability of the Linking Families Together (LIFT) intervention to improve parental monitoring during the transition from middle to high school a particularly risky time for…
- Trial name
- LIFT (NCT02129153)
- Testing
- LIFT (Parent Information)
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 318 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of California, Los Angeles
Depression, Post-traumatic Stress Disorder
Evaluating Implementation Strategies to Scale-up Transdiagnostic Evidence-based Mental Health Care in Zambia
This study utilizes a Hybrid Type 1 multi-arm parallel group randomized control design to compare the effectiveness of an evidence-based treatment (CETA) delivered either in-person or via telephone, compared with a treatment as…
- Conditions
- Depression, Post-traumatic Stress Disorder, Anxiety, Substance Abuse
- Trial name
- NCT03458039
- Testing
- In-person CETA, Telephone CETA, Treatment as Usual (TAU)
- Where
- Zambia
- Volunteers
- 456 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Centre for Infectious Disease Research in Zambia
Prevention Harmful Effects
Computerized Alcohol Screening for Children and Adolescents (cASCA) in Primary Care
The purpose of this study is to assess the psychometric properties of a brief screening questionnaire for alcohol problems among 9- to 18-year-old patients in pediatricians' offices, and to pilot test a personalized…
- Trial name
- cASCA (NCT02233946)
- Testing
- computer-facilitated brief intervention
- Where
- 5 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 871 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Boston Children's Hospital