Treating Chronic Pain in Buprenorphine Patients in Primary Care Settings
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Brief summary
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Treating Opioid Patients' Pain and Sadness (TOPPS) focuses on the relationship of pain, depression, opioid and other substance misuse, and functioning. It has a structured agenda, uses behavioral activation, involves explicit and ongoing psychoeducation, and includes a behavioral health specialist (BHS) trained extensively in the nature of pain and opioid misuse, including how to assess for red flags of opioid relapse. Devised specifically for primary care patients receiving buprenorphine, TOPPS is collaborative (PCP, BHS, and patient) and focuses on pain and physical symptoms in order to decrease the need to turn to substance misuse to avoid pain, and to foster patient's abilities to achieve their long-term life goals. In this study, TOPPS is compared to a health education contact-control condition among 250 persons with opioid use disorder recruited from two primary care based buprenorphine programs. The investigators will provide both interventions over 3 months, and follow the patients for a total of 12 months in order to observe both short-term and longer-term effects of TOPPS.
Study identification
- NCT ID
- NCT03698669
- Recruitment status
- Completed
- Study type
- Interventional
- Phase
- Not applicable
- Enrollment
- 163 participants
Conditions and interventions
Conditions
Interventions
- Treating Opioid Patients' Pain and Sadness (TOPPS) Behavioral
- Health Education (HE) Behavioral
Behavioral
Eligibility (public fields only)
- Age range
- 18 Years to 65 Years
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- Healthy volunteers not accepted
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Study timeline
- Start date
- Aug 20, 2019
- Primary completion
- Jun 27, 2024
- Completion
- Dec 19, 2024
- Last update posted
- Jan 7, 2026
2019 – 2024
United States locations
- U.S. sites
- 2
- U.S. states
- 1
- U.S. cities
- 2
| Facility | City | State | ZIP | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Boston Medical Center | Boston | Massachusetts | 02118 | — |
| Stanley Street Treatment and Resources | Fall River | Massachusetts | 02720 | — |
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- Last update posted Jan 7, 2026 · Synced Sep 3, 2026
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