Status:
RECRUITING
Young Houston Emergency Opioid Engagement System
Lead Sponsor:
The University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston
Conditions:
Opioid-use Disorder
Opioid Dependence
Eligibility:
All Genders
13-17 years
Phase:
PHASE4
Brief Summary
The Houston Emergency Response Opioid Engagement System for Youths and Adolescents (Young HEROES) is a community-based research program integrating assertive outreach, medication for opioid use disord...
Detailed Description
The Houston Emergency Response Opioid Engagement System for Youths and Adolescents (Young HEROES) is a non-randomized cohort study based at the University of Texas Health Science Center of Houston. Th...
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion
- In otherwise good health based on physician assessment and medical history
- Drug screen positive for opioids
- Patients express a willingness to stop opioid use
- Meet Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders - Text Revision (DSM-IV-TR) criteria for opioid dependence
- Patients must be able to speak English
- Be agreeable to and capable of signing the informed consent and assent (parent or guardian must consent, minor must assent)
Exclusion
- Non-English-speaking patients
- Have a known sensitivity to buprenorphine or naloxone
- Be physiologically dependent on alcohol, benzodiazepines, or other drugs of abuse that require immediate medical attention. Other substance use diagnoses are not exclusionary.
- Have a medical condition that would, in the opinion of the study physician, make participation medically hazardous, including unstable cardiovascular disease, neurological deficits, trauma, acute hepatitis, stroke, and liver or renal disease)
- Be acutely psychotic, severely depressed, and in need of inpatient treatment, or is an immediate suicide risk
- Be a nursing or pregnant female
Key Trial Info
Start Date :
April 19 2021
Trial Type :
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation :
ESTIMATED
End Date :
August 31 2030
Estimated Enrollment :
250 Patients enrolled
Trial Details
Trial ID
NCT04811014
Start Date
April 19 2021
End Date
August 31 2030
Last Update
October 1 2025
Active Locations (1)
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The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Houston, Texas, United States, 77030