Clinical trials: Prescription Drug Misuse
Opioid-Related Disorders, Drug Overdose
Prescribe to Save Lives
The U.S. is in the midst of an epidemic of opioid overdose deaths. The common use of opioids among persons living with HIV, along with their common use of benzodiazepines, has resulted in high rates of opioid overdose among this…
- Trial name
- PTSL (NCT03175640)
- Testing
- Implementation intervention
- Where
- 2 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 294 people
- Sponsor
- Baystate Medical Center
Medication Overuse, Deprescriptions
Prescribing Outcomes of a GP-Targeted Deprescribing Educational Intervention: A Cluster Randomized Trial
Polypharmacy is a common and growing public health concern across healthcare settings worldwide and is associated with an increased risk of inappropriate prescribing and adverse drug events.
- Conditions
- Medication Overuse, Deprescriptions, Polypharmacy, Frailty Syndrome
- Trial name
- NCT06470308
- Testing
- Medication Reviews and Deprescribing
- Where
- Greece
- Volunteers
- 200 people
- Sponsor
- University of Crete
Opioid Overdose
Developing and Testing the Opioid Rapid Response System
This Phase I SBIR will develop and demonstrate the usability/feasibility of the Opioid Rapid Response System (OSSR) in order to reduce deaths and strain on emergency response systems from opioid overdoses.
- Trial name
- NCT04589676
- Testing
- Naloxone training
- Where
- 2 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 400 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Real Prevention, LLC
Acute Intentional Overdose
EtCO2 Monitoring in Acute Self-poisoning
There is no consensus on monitoring criteria in acute self poisoning. Clinical scores, vital signs or lactatemia have failed to prove good predictive value.
- Trial name
- CAPNOTOX (NCT01800123)
- Where
- France
- Volunteers
- 200 people
- Sponsor
- University Hospital, Grenoble
Opioid-use Disorder, Opioid Dependence
Young Houston Emergency Opioid Engagement System
The Houston Emergency Response Opioid Engagement System for Youths and Adolescents (Young HEROES) is a community-based research program integrating assertive outreach, medication for opioid use disorder (MOUD), behavioral…
- Conditions
- Opioid-use Disorder, Opioid Dependence, Opioid Overdose, Opioid Use
- Trial name
- YHEROES (NCT04811014)
- Testing
- Buprenorphine, Naloxone Drug Combination, Individual Counseling, Peer Recovery Support Services
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 250 people
- Sponsor
- The University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston
Opioid Overdose
Preventing Opioid Overdose Deaths by Empowering Pharmacists to Dispense Naloxone
Objectives: The purpose of this study was to assess the impact of the Empowering Community Pharmacists program on pharmacists' knowledge, perceived barriers, attitudes, confidence, and intentions regarding naloxone services…
- Trial name
- NCT05093309
- Testing
- Educational Webinar, Resources, Reminders
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 55 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Auburn University
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
Medication Abuse, Harm Reduction
Evaluation of Clinical Decision Support in Opioid Tapering
The 2022 Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) clinical practice guideline for prescribing opioids for pain recommends that when tapering a patient's opioid dose, doses should be decreased at a slow rate to reduce the…
- Conditions
- Medication Abuse, Harm Reduction, Opioid Use Disorder, Opioid Prescribing
- Trial name
- NCT06527079
- Testing
- Observational study without a prospective intervention
- Volunteers
- 200,000 people
- Sponsor
- University of Colorado, Denver
Chronic Migraine
Gene Expression of Endocannabinoid System in Episodic and Chronic Migraine Patients
Preclinical and clinical evidence suggests a role for the dysregulation of endocannabinoid system (ES) in migraine pain, particularly in subjects with chronic migraine.
- Trial name
- NCT04324710
- Where
- Italy
- Volunteers
- 75 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- IRCCS National Neurological Institute "C. Mondino" Foundation
Drug Overdose, Drug Overdose Accidental
Behavioral Safety and Fentanyl Education: BSAFE
BSAFE is a randomized trial of a repeated-dose brief intervention to reduce overdose and risk behaviors among people who use stimulants who may have unintentional fentanyl use (UFU).
- Trial name
- BSAFE (NCT07219082)
- Testing
- BSAFE Intervention, Attention control
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 160 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- San Francisco Department of Public Health
Overdose, Drug, Drug Use
ASSIST: A Surveillance Study of Illicit Substance Toxicity
There is a drug-related death crisis in Scotland. This study aims to collaborate with Public Health Scotland in order to assess the feasibility of introducing a surveillance system to the Emergency Department to highlight illicit…
- Conditions
- Overdose, Drug, Drug Use, Drug Abuse, Drug Toxicity
- Trial name
- ASSIST (NCT05329142)
- Testing
- Surplus sample toxicology analysis
- Where
- United Kingdom
- Volunteers
- 1,000 people
- Sponsor
- NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde
Substance Use Disorders, Treatment Adherence and Compliance
Kentucky Access to Recovery Evaluation
Evaluate the long-term effectiveness of implementing vouchers as a linkage strategy in a population requiring recovery support services (RSS) when no other funding sources are available.
- Trial name
- NCT05889702
- Testing
- KATR Linkage Strategy
- Where
- 2 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 458 people
- Sponsor
- Terry Bunn
Opioid Overdose
Improving Availability of Intranasal Naloxone
While there is a lifesaving medication called naloxone that can reverse the deadly effects of opioid overdose, patients often fail to fill the prescription at the pharmacy when it is prescribed.
- Trial name
- NCT05877118
- Testing
- Enhanced Overdose Education (EOE), Standard education
- Where
- 2 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 84 people
- Sponsor
- Hartford Hospital
Opioid Overdose
European Cohort Study of the Effectiveness of Take Home Naloxone
This study aims to assess the effectiveness of take-home naloxone (THN) to reverse opioid overdose when administered by lay persons in a real world setting.
- Trial name
- NalPORS (NCT05072249)
- Testing
- Naloxone
- Where
- 6 sites in Denmark, Sweden and 1 more
- Volunteers
- 6,000 people
- Sponsor
- King's College London
Benzodiazepine Dependence, Benzodiazepine Abuse
Prevention of Benzodiazepine Misuse in Primary Care
Benzodiazepines and benzodiazepine-like hypnotics (z-drugs) are prevalent and addictive narcotics. Guidelines recommend restricted prescription of these drugs for anxiety and insomnia.
- Conditions
- Benzodiazepine Dependence, Benzodiazepine Abuse, Substance Use Disorders
- Trial name
- NCT04533230
- Testing
- Educational intervention with prescription feedback, Information on treatment guidelines
- Where
- Sweden
- Sponsor
- Karolinska Institutet
Drug Overdose, Substance Abuse
EEG Monitoring in the Emergency Department
This study seeks to investigate whether drug effects in suspected overdose patients could be identified using the electroencephalogram (EEG).
- Conditions
- Drug Overdose, Substance Abuse, Alcohol Abuse
- Trial name
- NCT04070521
- Testing
- Observational EEG Monitoring
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 10 people
- Sponsor
- Massachusetts General Hospital
Opioid Use Disorder, Opioid Use
Overdose Recovery and Care Access (ORCA) Qualitative Stakeholder Interviews and County-level Data
The study is a quasi-experimental investigation of a sub-acute stabilization center (SASC) for people who have had or are at risk for having an opioid overdose and have an encounter with Seattle Fire Department emergency medical…
- Trial name
- NCT06768814
- Testing
- Sub-acute stabilization
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 40,000 people
- Sponsor
- University of Washington
Out-Of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest, Trauma
AI to Improve Data From Danish Cardiac Arrest Registry
Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest is a leading cause of death worldwide and patient outcome vary substantially throughout regions suggesting further evaluation and potential for improvement.When focussing on subgroups of OHCA, data…
- Conditions
- Out-Of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest, Trauma, Drug Overdose, Electrocution
- Trial name
- NCT05308303
- Where
- Denmark
- Volunteers
- 31,200 people
- Sponsor
- Prehospital Center, Region Zealand
Drug Overdose, Opioid-Related Disorders
Safety & Prevention Outcomes Study
Unintentional poisoning is a developing public health problem in the U.S. Unintentional poisoning (or "overdose") deaths increased 157% among adults between 1999 and 2008.
- Trial name
- SPOS (NCT01894087)
- Testing
- TBI - Cohort 1, TBI - Cohort 2
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 204 people
- Sponsor
- University of Michigan
Opioid-use Disorder, IV Drug Usage
AWAITS: A Web-based E-health Application for Active Illicit Opioid Users
The purpose of this research study is to: 1. assess how participants like the AWAITS e-health application as measured by their feedback on the intervention 2.
- Conditions
- Opioid-use Disorder, IV Drug Usage, Overdose, Drug Addiction
- Trial name
- AWAITS (NCT03402672)
- Testing
- self-administered, e-health application
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 24 people
- Sponsor
- University of Cincinnati