Yoga for Pain and Opioid Dependence

Yale University8 enrolled

Overview

This study is designed to develop an effective adjunctive treatment using yoga for chronic pain and opioid dependence.

This study aims to develop an adjunctive novel treatment intervention using yoga in opioid agonist maintained patients to effectively treat the co-occurring disorders of non-malignant chronic pain and opioid dependence (POD). Specific Aims: 1\) To conduct a pre-pilot phase with 8 patients with POD receiving opioid agonist maintenance treatment.

Study Type

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

TREATMENT

Masking

NONE

Enrollment

Conditions

Chronic Pain Opioid Addiction

Interventions

YogaOTHER

Two yoga sessions per week for 8 weeks (one yoga session is instructional, the other is a practice session.

Educational CounselingBEHAVIORAL

One didactic session per week of approximately 50 minutes that provides information about chronic pain and substance abuse disorders.

Eligibility

Sex: ALLMin age: 18 YearsMax age: 65 Years

Medical Language ↔ Plain English

Inclusion Criteria: * 18 years of age or older * Prescription opioid addiction or heroin addiction * Moderate to severe chronic pain, * Understands English Exclusion Criteria: * Current suicide or homicide risk * Life threatening or unstable medical condition * Medical or psychiatric condition that is judged to be of clinical concern by the PI or admitting clinician * Pregnancy

Locations (1)

MRU

New Haven, Connecticut, United States

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

Pain reduction

Pain reduction will be measured by patient self-report using standard pain rating scales.

Time frame: 8 weeks

Reduce illicit opioid use

Reduced illicit opioid use will be measured by patient self-report and urinalysis testing.

Time frame: 8 weeks

Data from ClinicalTrials.gov

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