Prazosin for Alcohol Use Disorder With Withdrawal Symptoms
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Official title
Prazosin Treatment for Alcohol Use Disorder With Alcohol Withdrawal Symptoms
Brief summary
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This is a Phase 2 single site randomized clinical trial (RCT) to be supported by a new NIH-NIAAA grant, R01-AA029113-01, to assess the efficacy of Prazosin (16mg/day) versus Placebo over a 12 week treatment period, followed by a 1- and 3- month assessments post-treatment for individuals with Alcohol Use Disorder (AUD) and history of past or current evidence of alcohol withdrawal symptoms. If medical detoxification is required for any patient, patients would be enrolled after medical detoxification. for those not requiring detoxification, they will be enrolled directly without any requirement of alcohol abstinence. All patients will be provided behavioral counseling weekly with a trained counselor to support recovery during the trial. Primary outcome will be percent of any heavy drinking days and secondary drinking outcomes will be percent of subjects with no heavy drinking days (PSNHDD), avg drinks per drinking day and %of any drinking drinking days as well as additional secondary outcomes of craving, mood and anxiety problems.
Study identification
- NCT ID
- NCT04793685
- Recruitment status
- Recruiting
- Study type
- Interventional
- Phase
- Phase 2
- Enrollment
- 150 participants
Conditions and interventions
Conditions
Interventions
Drug · Behavioral
Eligibility (public fields only)
- Age range
- 18 Years to 70 Years
- 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
- Jun 30, 2021
- Primary completion
- Jun 29, 2026
- Completion
- Jun 29, 2027
- Last update posted
- Dec 10, 2025
2021 – 2027
United States locations
- U.S. sites
- 1
- U.S. states
- 1
- U.S. cities
- 1
| Facility | City | State | ZIP | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Yale Stress Center: Yale University | New Haven | Connecticut | 06519 | Recruiting |
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- Last update posted Dec 10, 2025 · Synced Sep 6, 2026
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