University of Maryland Addiction Programs and Affiliated Clinics
Baltimore, Maryland, 21201, United States
Location status: Recruiting
NCT Number: NCT06943859
The goal of this clinical trial is to learn if ketamine works to reduce craving for opioids in adults entering methadone treatment for opioid use disorder. The main questions it aims to answer are:
* Does ketamine reduce craving for opioids in patients with opioid use disorder? * Does ketamine reduce symptoms of opioid withdrawal such as depression, pain, and poor sleep quality? * Do patients who take the low dose ketamine stay in methadone treatment longer, and/or have better treatment outcomes than those given the very low dose?
Researchers will compare two low doses of ketamine to see if ketamine works to reduce craving for opioids in adults entering methadone treatment for opioid use disorder.
Participants will:
* Be given a low dose or a very low dose of ketamine 4 times over a period of 2 weeks * Visit the clinic weekly and monthly for checkups and tests for 90 days post-intake
Interested in participating?
Request Info18 year–65 year
All sexes
Interventional
Phase 2
Baltimore, Maryland, 21201, United States
Location status: Recruiting
Healthy volunteers accepted: No
Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.
Inclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria
Participants will receive four doses of ketamine spaced 1-6 days apart of 0.75 mg/kg intramuscular ketamine (n=25) for two weeks (first ketamine session must occur no later than 28 days post-intake). Individuals will be monitored for two hours post-dose by a clinician.
Participants will receive four doses of very low dose ketamine (0.1mg.kg) (n=25) spaced 1-6 days apart for two weeks (first ketamine session must occur no later than 28 days post-intake). Individuals will be monitored for two hours post-dose by a clinician.
Time frame: Collected at baseline, weekly, 30-, 60-, and 90 days post-intake
Faceted Opioid Research Craving Assessment for Substance use Treatment (FORCAST): A 26-item assessment of tonic craving that the person reports having felt over the prior one or two weeks. Participants indicate how much they disagree or agree with each statement on a scale that ranges from 0-6, with 0 representing "strongly disagree", 3 representing "neither agree nor disagree", and 6 representing "strongly agree". Higher scores indicate higher levels of craving. The minimum score is 0, and the maximum scores for each of the subscales are as follows:
Preoccupation: 24 Negative Reinforcement: 30 Positive Reinforcement: 24 Motivation: 30 Lack of control: 24 Uneasiness: 24
Maximum total score for all subscales = 156
Time frame: Completed at baseline, weekly, 30-, 60-, and 90 days post-intake
Montgomery-Asberg Depression Rating Scale (MADRS): a 10-item questionnaire of depression severity. The total score ranges from 0-60, with scores of 0-6 considered normal (non-depressed), 7-19 indicative of mild depression, 20-34 indicative of moderate depression, and 35-60 indicative of severe depression. Item 10 on the instrument will be used to monitor any changes in suicidal ideation throughout the trial.
Time frame: Collected at Baseline, weekly following intake, 30-, 60-, and 90 days post-intake
Cue Reactivity Paradigm: our drug cue reactivity paradigm will be designed to elicit an acute craving state. We will present a series of opioid cue images continuously (total time <5 min) via computer or tablet. Cues will be personalized based on each individual's drug use history as derived from baseline clinical assessments. For example, if a participant had no history of intravenous drug injection, we will not present opioid cue images containing injection paraphernalia like needles and instead will present images with opioid pills and/or powder. At the end of each one-minute session, participants will be asked to rate, on a scale of 1-10, "How much did you like the images you saw?", "How much do you want to use right now?", "How much do you want to avoid using right now?", "How much control do you feel you have over using right now" and "What is the maximum amount you would pay right now for a single dose of what you saw?"
Time frame: Collected at Baseline, weekly following intake, 30-, 60-, and 90 days post-intake
Pain Brief Scale (PEG): A 3-item measure of past-week average pain intensity (P), interference with enjoyment of life (E), and interference with general activity (G).
Time frame: Collected through 90 days post-intake
Study team will have access to clinic records to assess the number of methadone doses patients have received at 90 days post-intake
Time frame: PSQI collected at Baseline and 30-, 60-, and 90 days post-intake
Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI): A 19-item questionnaire assessing past-month sleep quality and disturbances. Seven component scores are generated: subjective sleep quality, sleep latency, sleep duration, habitual sleep efficiency, sleep disturbances, use of sleeping medication, and daytime dysfunction. The sum of scores for the 7 components yields one global score
Time frame: ISI collected at Baseline, weekly following intake, 30-, 60-, and 90 days post-intake
Insomnia Severity Index (ISI): A five-item measure of current (past two weeks, or since last study visit) insomnia symptoms.
Time frame: SQS collected via daily optional EMAs through 90 days post-intake
Modified Single Item Sleep Quality Scale (SQS): A self-administered questionnaire that incorporates a VAS delivered electronically. SQS directs the patient to rate the overall quality of sleep over a 7-day period (modified for our study to rate the overall quality of sleep the past night) on a scale of 1-10 considering how many hours of sleep they had, how easily they fell asleep, how often they woke up during the night (excluding bathroom trips), how often they woke up earlier than intended
Time frame: Collected at baseline and at 30-, 60-, and 90 days post-intake
Substance Use Recovery Evaluator (SURE): A 21-item patient reported outcome measure of recovery from substance use disorder that has good face and content validity, acceptability and usability for people in recovery and is psychometrically valid.
Time frame: collected through 90 days post-intake
Study team will have access to clinic drug screenings through 90 days post-intake
Time frame: collected weekly through 90 days post-intake via optional EMAs
Choice under risk and ambiguity (CRA) decision making task: On each trial, participants choose between a guaranteed $1 and a lottery. Each lottery has 2 possible outcomes: v or $0, where v ranges from $1.20 to $13.20. On half of the trials, v could be received with 1 of 3 known probabilities (p: 25%, 50%, or 75%); on the other half, the probability information is occluded and thus incompletely known (the ambiguity context). There are 3 levels of ambiguity: low (24% unknown), medium (50% unknown), and high (74% unknown). In reality, the true underlying probability in ambiguity trials is fixed at 50%. Different combinations of v, risk level, and ambiguity level are presented for 30 trials total.
A modified utility model will be used which can extract the following parameters from participant decisions on these trials:
Time frame: collected through 90 days post-intake
Study team will have access to clinic records of methadone dose (mg) received by participant at 90 days post-intake
Time frame: collected through 6-, 9-, and 12 months post intake
Study team will have access to clinic records of methadone dose, number of methadone doses received, and frequency of negative drug screens though 12 months post intake
Contact information is provided by the study sponsor or research team.
Kynah Walston, MA
CONTACT
Peter Manza, PhD
CONTACT
University of Maryland, Baltimore
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Ketamine for the Treatment of Opioid Use Disorder
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