Treatment for Opioid Dependent Offenders

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2011-05-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

This pilot study is examining the feasibility of a primary care and a specialist treatment (methadone clinic) model of treatment for 15 offenders who are part of two community supervision programs: Drug Court and the Treatment Alternative Program (TAP) in Dane County. The questions addressed by future larger studies based upon the current pilot-feasibility study will center around whether access to primary health care as opposed to more traditional methadone treatment services will improve the health and criminal justice outcomes for participants.

• Phase: Phase 2/Phase 3
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: University of Wisconsin, Madison
• Collaborator: University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
• Treatments: Analgesics, Opioid; Buprenorphine; Buprenorphine, Naloxone Drug Combination; Methadone

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• diagnosis of opioid dependence

• opioid positive urine drug screen

• participation in local Drug Treatment Court or Treatment Alternative Program

• women of childbearing potential who have a negative screening urine pregnancy test and are willing to use appropriate birth control methods during the duration of the study

Exclusion Criteria:

• current alcohol or sedative dependence

• pregnancy

• women who are currently breast-feeding

• complex psychiatric co-morbidity (e.g. suicidality, psychosis)

• complex medical co-morbidity (e.g. major cardiovascular, renal, or gastrointestinal/hepatic disease)

• current pharmacotherapy with an agent which is contraindicated in combination with Suboxone or methadone according to drug labeling

• paralytic ileus, coronary artery disease or heart arrhythmia, recent head injury, obstructive sleep apnea, severe asthma or COPD, end-stage renal disease, or severe morbid obesity