This study proposes to recruit patients with Opioid Use Disorder (OUD) seeking treatment into our program of outpatient detoxification and naltrexone induction followed by a relapse-prevention treatment with Extended release-naltrexone (XR-NTX) . Eligible participants will be randomly assigned to adjunctive treatment with lorcaserin (N = 40), or placebo (N = 20) with weekly therapy.
The study proposes to recruit patients with Opioid Use Disorder (OUD) seeking treatment into our program of outpatient detoxification and naltrexone induction followed by a relapse-prevention treatment with Extended release-naltrexone (XR-NTX) . Eligible participants will be randomly assigned to adjunctive treatment with lorcaserin (N = 40), or placebo (N = 20) with weekly therapy. Lorcaserin or placebo 10 mg bid will be started on Day 1 of the study to address acute withdrawal, then maintained over the next 5 weeks, and stopped after the second XR-naltrexone is administered. Patients will be seen twice weekly for monitoring and offered two injections of naltrexone; at the end of oral naltrexone induction (end of week 1) and four weeks later (week 5). The primary outcome measures will be the proportion of patients successfully inducted onto XR-naltrexone.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
QUADRUPLE
Enrollment
60
Lorcaserin 10mg, twice daily
Matched placebo for lorcaserin condition dosed twice daily
Substance Treatment and Research Service (STARS), Columbia University
New York, New York, United States
Proportion of Patients Successfully Inducted to Receive Naltrexone Injection
proportion of individuals who were successfully inducted and received the first XR-naltrexone injection
Time frame: Study week 1
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