Trial of Methadone Maintenance Versus Methadone Detox in Jail
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Official title
A Randomized Trail of Continues Methadone Maintenance Versus Detoxification in Jail
Brief summary
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Methadone maintenance treatment (MMT) has been shown to be effective in reducing drug use, criminal activity and recidivism. Given this effectiveness, maintaining individuals who are enrolled in community MMT when committed to the Department of Corrections for short term incarceration would improve post release outcomes. However, this is rarely practiced in the United States. Current practice at the Rhode Island Department of Corrections is to detox inmates on methadone within 30 days of being incarcerated. More than 75% of these individuals are incarcerated for less than six months. The period immediately after release from incarceration is a particularly high-risk time for HIV and other problems including drug relapse and overdose. The investigators hypothesize that inmates who are incarcerated for 6 months or less will have better outcomes and cost the state less money if they are maintained on their methadone dose and relinked to their community clinic at release, than the current practice of detoxification.
Study identification
- NCT ID
- NCT01874964
- Recruitment status
- Not listed
- Study type
- Interventional
- Phase
- Not applicable
- Enrollment
- 450 participants
Conditions and interventions
Conditions
Interventions
- Methadone Maintenance Behavioral
- Linkage to methadone maintenance Behavioral
Behavioral
Eligibility (public fields only)
- Age range
- 18 Years and older
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- Healthy volunteers not accepted
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Study timeline
- Start date
- May 31, 2010
- Primary completion
- May 31, 2013
- Completion
- Apr 30, 2014
- Last update posted
- Jun 10, 2013
2010 – 2014
United States locations
- U.S. sites
- 1
- U.S. states
- 1
- U.S. cities
- 1
| Facility | City | State | ZIP | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rhode Island Department of Corrections | Cranston | Rhode Island | 02920 | — |
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- Last update posted Jun 10, 2013 · Synced Sep 2, 2026
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