Harnessing Placebo Effects in Methadone Treatment
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Official title
Open-labeled Dose-extending Placebos as an Adjunct to Methadone Treatment: A Pilot Study
Brief summary
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More than 2 million individuals in the United States have an Opioid Use Disorder (OUD). Methadone maintenance treatment is the gold standard of medication-assisted treatment for OUD, but high-dose methadone is associated with cardiotoxicity and respiratory complications, among other side effects. These adverse effects make enhancing the effectiveness of lower doses of methadone an attractive therapeutic goal. Long recognized for its capacity to enhance treatment outcomes for a wide range of neuropsychiatric disorders including pain, the placebo effect offers an as-yet untested avenue to such an enhancement. This approach is particularly compelling given that individuals with substance use disorder tend to have higher salience attribution, and may thereby be more sensitive to placebo effects. Our study combines two promising clinical methodologies-open-label placebo and conditioning-to investigate whether placebo effects can increase the effective potency of methadone in treatment-seeking OUD patients.
Study identification
- NCT ID
- NCT02941809
- Recruitment status
- Completed
- Study type
- Interventional
- Phase
- Not applicable
- Enrollment
- 133 participants
Conditions and interventions
Conditions
Eligibility (public fields only)
- Age range
- 18 Years and older
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- Healthy volunteers not accepted
This page does not interpret eligibility. Detailed inclusion and exclusion criteria are on the official ClinicalTrials.gov record.
Study timeline
- Start date
- Dec 4, 2017
- Primary completion
- Jul 30, 2020
- Completion
- Jul 30, 2020
- Last update posted
- Aug 10, 2020
2017 – 2020
United States locations
- U.S. sites
- 1
- U.S. states
- 1
- U.S. cities
- 1
| Facility | City | State | ZIP | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Maryland Methadone Treatment Center | Baltimore | Maryland | 21201 | — |
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