Clinical trials: Harm Reduction
Cigarette Smoking
Analysis of Lipid Biomarkers of Exposure and Host Response
The purpose of this prospective, open-label, clinical trial is to establish the feasibility and validity of exhaled breath condensate (EBC) biomarkers for use in studies designed to evaluate harm reduction strategies of smoking.
- Trial name
- NCT00493831
- Testing
- nicotine polacrilex, transdermal system or inhaler
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 24 people
- Sponsor
- University of Nebraska
Smoking, Asthma
E-cigarettes for Harm Reduction in Adults With Asthma
Smoking is the main cause of preventable disease and death in the US and impacts respiratory illnesses including COPD and asthma.
- Conditions
- Smoking, Asthma, Electronic Cigarette Use, Cigarette Smoking
- Trial name
- SWAP (NCT05278065)
- Testing
- Nicotine
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 17 people
- Sponsor
- Brown University
Tobacco Use Disorder
Efficacy of Oral Tobacco Products Compared to a Medicinal Nicotine
For the primary goals, we hypothesize that 1) the oral tobacco product will be more efficacious than the medicinal nicotine product in substituting for smoking cigarettes; 2) among non-abstainers, the oral tobacco product will…
- Trial name
- NCT00710034
- Testing
- Oral tobacco, Nicotine Gum
- Where
- 2 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 391 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Minnesota
Cigarette Smoking
E-Cigarettes and Financial Incentives to Promote Tobacco Harm Reduction Among Adults Accessing Shelter Services
This randomized controlled trial evaluated the feasibility and potential efficacy of 1) e-cigarette switching (EC) or 2) e-cigarette switching + financial incentives for combustible cigarette cessation (EC+FI)
- Trial name
- EXCHANGE (NCT03743532)
- Testing
- E-cigarette Switching, Financial Incentives
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 60 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Oklahoma
Drink Too Much, Drinking, Binge
Group-based Intervention for Club Patrons
The purpose of this study is to develop and test a group-based strategy for encouraging groups of young adults who are engaged in party behaviors at nightclubs to intervene with each other to reduce harms associated with overuse…
- Conditions
- Drink Too Much, Drinking, Binge, Drunk, Drug Use
- Trial name
- NCT03652688
- Testing
- Nightlife Safety Plans (NSP), Fire Safety
- Where
- 2 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 959 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation
Opiate Antagonist Overdose, Opioid-Related Disorders
Naloxone Auto-injector as a Universal Precaution for Patients With Opioid Use Disorder
The purpose of this pilot-study is to to distribute naloxone auto-injector in a "Universal Precaution" manner to patients with opioid substance use disorder.
- Trial name
- NCT02669901
- Testing
- Naloxone Auto-Injector
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 395 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of New Mexico
HIV, Hepatitis C
Ending Transmission of HIV, HCV, and STDs and Overdose in Rural Communities of People Who Inject Drugs (ETHIC)
This study will evaluate the referral to harm reduction services (HRS) including syringe services, naloxone overdose prevention, substance use treatment referral, HIV, HCV, and STD testing and referral and linkage to care through…
- Conditions
- HIV, Hepatitis C, Opioid-use Disorder, Injection Drug Use
- Trial name
- ETHIC (NCT04427202)
- Testing
- Referral to harm reduction services
- Where
- 2 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 306 people
- Sponsor
- University of Chicago
Tobacco Use
Quit or Switch: E-cigarette Study
The majority of smokers try to quit each year, and the majority of quit attempts fail, even when the most effective FDA-approved pharmacotherapies are used.
- Trial name
- NCT05525078
- Testing
- e-cigarette, Nicotine patch, Nicotine lozenge
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 30 people
- Sponsor
- Medical University of South Carolina
Drug Use Disorders, Hepatitis C
Community-Based, Client-Centered Prevention Homes to Address the Rural Opioid Epidemic- Aim 3
The goal of this study was to effectively use a client-centered community-based intervention to engage people who inject drugs (PWIDs) in healthcare that helps reduce risky behaviors and lower infectious disease risks.
- Conditions
- Drug Use Disorders, Hepatitis C, Harm Reduction, Opioid-use Disorder
- Trial name
- NCT04268173
- Testing
- Community-Based, Client-Centered Prevention Home
- Where
- 6 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 343 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Wisconsin, Madison
Smoking, Cigarette
Switching to a Vaping Device: Evaluating Risk Reduction Among Quitline Treatment Failures
The overall aim of the study is to evaluate the provision of e-cigarette (EC) versus NRT on smoking behavior, product use patterns and continued use, and iCO, a biomarker of toxicant exposure, among a sample of recent QL…
- Trial name
- NCT03502200
- Testing
- JUUL, Treatment As Usual
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 350 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center
Tobacco Use Disorder, Smoking
Electronic Cigarettes (E-cigarettes) as a Harm Reduction Strategy
The purpose of this study is to examine the feasibility of using e-cigarettes as a method for harm reduction and the effects of providing e-cigarettes (or placebo e-cigarettes) on smoking outcomes.
- Trial name
- NCT02628964
- Testing
- e-cigarettes
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 100 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- NYU Langone Health
Harm Reduction, HIV Infections
Implementation of Onsite, Rapid ART Initiation Among People Who Inject Drugs Living With HIV at Syringe Services Program
The purpose of this study is to see if providing HIV medicine right away at the IDEA Syringe Services Program will help the participant start and remain in HIV care, including having no detectable HIV in the participant's blood.
- Conditions
- Harm Reduction, HIV Infections, Drug Use
- Trial name
- NCT04650269
- Testing
- Biktarvy 50Mg-200Mg-25Mg Tablet, HIV care
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 27 people
- Sponsor
- University of Miami
Electronic Cigarette Use, Smoking, Cigarette
Assessing E-Cigarettes for Tobacco Harm Reduction in the Context of Lung Cancer Screening
This study investigates the feasibility, acceptability, and short-term effects of providing 4 weeks of complimentary electronic cigarettes (ECs) to 30 individuals who did not quit after smoking cessation treatment provided in the…
- Conditions
- Electronic Cigarette Use, Smoking, Cigarette, Nicotine Dependence
- Trial name
- NCT06472869
- Testing
- NJOY ACE e-cigarette
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 15 people
- Sponsor
- Massachusetts General Hospital
Opioid Overdose, Drug Overdose
Preventing Overdose Using Information and Data From the Environment
The objectives of this project are to leverage surveillance data to predict future overdose outbreaks, and to evaluate the impact of a randomized, statewide, community-level intervention trial to target overdose prevention…
- Trial name
- PROVIDENT (NCT05096429)
- Testing
- PROVIDENT
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 39 people
- Sponsor
- Brown University
Opioid Use, Opioid-use Disorder
Providing Suboxone and PrEP Using Telemedicine
The purpose of this study is to provide medication for opioid use disorder (MOUD) with buprenorphine and naloxone, or bup/nx, and pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) for HIV prevention for persons who inject opioids accessing syringe…
- Conditions
- Opioid Use, Opioid-use Disorder, Risk Reduction, Hiv
- Trial name
- NCT04521920
- Testing
- Suboxone, PrEP
- Where
- 3 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 17 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Duke University
Smoking, Cigarette
Heated Tobacco Products vs Electronic Cigarettes
This is a 12-weeks, open label, non-inferiority trial comparing HTPs vs ECs in terms of efficacy, adoption rate and acceptability, tolerability, and tobacco harm reduction in 220 healthy smokers, not motivated to quit, randomized…
- Trial name
- NCT03569748
- Testing
- IQOS, E-CIG
- Where
- Italy
- Volunteers
- 220 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Catania
Opioid Use, Stimulant Use
THRIVE: Culturally AdapTed Harm Reduction Intervention
The goal of this study is to develop and test a culturally adapted harm reduction intervention among Black adults who misuse opioids and/or stimulants.
- Trial name
- NCT06609278
- Testing
- harm reduction intervention
- Where
- 3 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 63 people
- Sponsor
- Brittany Miller-Roenigk
Smoking Cessation, Harm Reduction
Assisting Smokers to Switch to a JUUL E-Cigarette by Devaluing Combustible Cigarettes
This study will evaluate a reward devaluation strategy in which smokers use the JUUL e-cigarette immediately before any combustible cigarettes (CCs) are smoked.
- Conditions
- Smoking Cessation, Harm Reduction, E-Cig Use, Cigarette Smoking
- Trial name
- RECON (NCT04188197)
- Testing
- JUUL
- Where
- 2 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 50 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Rose Research Center, LLC
Hepatitis C, Drug Users
The Impact on Linkage-to-care of an Alternative Hepatitis C Screening Method in PWID
Screening, diagnosis and treatment of HCV in PWID, should be part of a harm reduction strategy. Treatment of HCV infected PWID should be delivered in a multidisciplinary care setting with services to reduce the risk of…
- Conditions
- Hepatitis C, Drug Users, Harm Reduction, HIV
- Trial name
- NCT02971488
- Testing
- Screening for HCV in PWID and Linkage-To-Care
- Volunteers
- 529 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Hospital Universitario Infanta Leonor
Suicide, Attempted, Suicide and Self-harm
Real-time Intervention for Suicide Risk Reduction: Primary Open Pilot
The goal of this study is to provide an initial pilot test of an Ecological Momentary Intervention (EMI) designed the reduce the distress associated with negative emotion among individuals at risk for suicide that pairs content…
- Trial name
- NCT03950765
- Testing
- Ecological momentary intervention
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 25 people
- Sponsor
- Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey