Substance Abuse Treatment for High Risk Chronic Pain Patients on Opioid Therapy
CompletedNot applicableNCT00988962
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This study has no listed site in Canada in this snapshot. It is included as part of the worldwide chronic pain corpus.
Brief summary (from the registry)
Chronic back pain patients are often dismissed from a pain center or a primary care practice when they are noncompliant with opioid therapy, instead of being offered treatments to reduce misuse and to improve compliance. Unfortunately, there are few treatment resources for such patients. This study seeks to remedy that problem, with the goal of reducing the rate of prescription opioid misuse among noncompliant patients through the use of novel tracking, education, and counseling interventions.
Study details
- Official title
- Substance Abuse Treatment for High Risk Chronic Pain Patients on Opioid Therapy
- Conditions
- Substance Abuse
- Interventions
- Behavioral: cognitive behavioral training
- Sponsor
- Brigham and Women's Hospital
- Collaborators
- National Institutes of Health (NIH)
- Start date
- 2009-07
- Primary completion
- 2011-06
- Sex
- All
- Age range
- from 18 Years
- Results posted
- No results posted in this snapshot
- Countries
- United States
- Total sites listed
- 1
Eligibility criteria
Show eligibility criteria (verbatim from the registry)
Inclusion Criteria: * chronic pain for \>6 months * history of taking daily opioids for pain for \>6 months * average \>3 on a pain intensity scale of 0 to 10 over past week * able to speak and understand English * chronic neck or back pain as primary pain complaint * willingness to participate Exclusion Criteria: * current opioid addiction (M.I.N.I. Section K) * current diagnosis of cancer or any other malignant disease * acute osteomyelitis or acute bone disease * nonambulatory * present or past DSM-IV diagnosis of schizophrenia, delusional disorder, psychotic disorder, or dissociative disorder * pregnancy * any clinically unstable systemic illness judged to interfere with treatment * an acute condition requiring surgery * taking opioids intermittently
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov (US National Library of Medicine), snapshot October 2026. Check the registry for current recruiting status. Record: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT00988962