Chronic Pain, Opioids, and Anger Treatment

Brief summary (from the registry)

The current US opioid epidemic is a pressing public health concern. Links between opioid misuse and mortality are well-known; nearly 70% of all drug overdose deaths in 2017 were attributable to opioids. Given their pain-relieving properties, opioids have been widely used in the chronic pain population who are also susceptible to misuse of these analgesics.. In chronic pain patients with anger, the pain as well as opioid use may be aggravated. For example, suppression of anger has been linked with increased pain sensitivity in experiments, while anger-hostility scores and internalized anger predict pain severity variance and pain intensity, respectively. Anger is also linked with drug use/abuse, including opioids. The goal of this research is to implement a state-of-the-art program for anger regulation in chronic pain patients., Called Cognitive Behavioral Affective Therapy (CBAT), this program is evaluated on multiple measures of anger, sensory versus affective measures of pain, and measures of opioid misuse. CBAT is expected to reduce anger, and thereby produce reduction in pain as well as shift attitudes away from opioid misuse..

Study details

Official title

Alleviating Pain and Opioid Dependence Through Anger Management: A Pilot Study

Conditions

• Anger
• Opioid Use
• Chronic Pain

Interventions

• Behavioral: Emotion discussion
• Behavioral: Cognitive Behavioral Affective Therapy

Sponsor

The University of Texas at San Antonio

Start date

2020-07-01

Primary completion

2022-01-01

Sex

All

Age range

from 18 Years to 65 Years

Healthy volunteers

true

Results posted

No results posted in this snapshot

Countries

United States

Total sites listed

1

Eligibility criteria