A Novel Anti-Obesity Drug Combination as a Pharmacotherapy for Cocaine Dependence

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2018-06-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

The research proposed in this application will determine the initial efficacy, safety and tolerability of a novel drug combination, bupropion and naltrexone, as a pharmacotherapy for cocaine dependence. A rigorous, inpatient human laboratory study will be conducted. The proposed study is innovative and important because it will provide the impetus for the conduct of double blind, placebo-controlled trials to further demonstrate the efficacy of bupropion-naltrexone combinations for managing cocaine dependence.

• Phase: Early Phase 1
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Craig Rush
• Collaborator: National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)
• Treatments: Bupropion

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Recent cocaine use

Exclusion Criteria:

• Abnormal screening outcome (e.g., ECG, blood chemistry result) that study physicians deem clinically significant.

• Current or past histories of substance abuse or dependence that are deemed by the study physicians to interfere with study completion.

• History of serious physical disease, current physical disease, impaired cardiovascular functioning, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, history of seizure or current or past histories of serious psychiatric disorder that in the opinion of the study physician would interfere with study participation will be excluded from participation.

• Females not currently using effective birth control.

• Contraindications to cocaine, bupropion or naltrexone,