Developing Computer Based Treatments for Addiction

Completed · Not applicable

Conditions studied: Cocaine Addiction

In brief

The purpose of our research is to examine the promise of a new computer based approach to use in usual drug counseling when treating crack cocaine addiction.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT00586534

Run by

Duke University

People needed

216

Starts

2007-01-01

Expected to finish

2014-12-01

Last updated by the study team

2015-03-18

Who can join

Age: 18 and older, up to 60. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Meets SCID-I criteria for cocaine dependence; crack cocaine is primary substance of abuse
• Consents to outpatient treatment for drug addiction
• Resides within commuting distance of treatment

You may not qualify if…

• Full criteria met for psychotic disorders
• Full criteria met for current mania
• IQ less than 70
• Unable to give consent
• Can not read
• Current and chronic absence of shelter
• Impending jail/prison for more than three weeks (problems which by their presence or severity preclude ability to attend or understand treatment and/or requires priority treatment over substance use treatment)
• Court order to treatment or to jail, or agency order to treatment or loss of child custody (due to inability to freely drop-out of treatment)
• Refuses to discontinue current drug abuse treatment or refuses random assignment
• If the potential participant lives with or is in an intimate relationship with another participant currently being treated in the study, they will be told that they cannot participate until that housemate or partner has completed treatment in the study

Where it is running

• Duke University Medical Center — Durham, North Carolina, United States

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