Opioid Treatment Program (OTP)-Pharmacy Collaboration for Methadone Maintenance Treatment

• Status: Active, not recruiting
• Trial end date: 2021-07-31
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

The overarching goal of this pilot study is to explore the feasibility, acceptability, and patient/provider satisfaction of pharmacy-based administration and dispensing of methadone for opioid use disorder. The results gained will inform the development of a future multisite randomized clinical trial.

• Phase: Early Phase 1
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Friends Research Institute, Inc.
• Collaborators: Duke Health; Duke University Health System; National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)
• Treatments: Methadone

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Patient aged 18 or older receiving methadone treatment at Morse Clinic in Raleigh or Zebulon, NC.

• Able to provide informed written consent to participate in the pilot study.

• Receiving a stable methadone dose between 5 mg and 160 mg.

• Having all negative drug tests (except for prescribed methadone and ethanol) at the OTP for the past 12 months.

• No missed call-backs in the past 12 months.

• No signs/symptoms of a co-occurring major mental illness (i.e., thought disorder, thoughts of harm to self or others, delusions or hallucinations, cognitive impairment compromising informed consent to study procedures and requirements).

• Meeting the federal and state regulations for eligibility to receive between 6- and 13-days of take-home methadone and receiving this level of take-home doses at the time of study enrollment.

• If female, using adequate birth control methods.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Have a serious medical, psychiatric or substance use disorder that, in the opinion of the study physician, would make study participation hazardous to the participant, compromise study findings, or prevent the participant from completing the study.

• Have chronic pain requiring ongoing pain management with opioid analgesics.

• Prisoner status or pending legal action that could prevent participation in study activities

• Legal order for treatment (e.g., parole, probation, or pre-trial)

• Pregnant or breastfeeding at the time of screening.