HEALing Communities Study
Completed · Not applicable
Conditions studied: Opioid Use Disorder (OUD)
In brief
This study will test the impact of implementing the Communities That Helping to End Addiction Long-term (HEAL) intervention on opioid overdose deaths within 67 highly affected communities with the goal of reducing opioid overdose deaths by 40%.
Key facts
- Study ID
- NCT04111939
- Run by
- RTI International
- People needed
- 67
- Starts
- 2019-10-23
- Expected to finish
- 2025-09-30
- Last updated by the study team
- 2026-08-04
Who can join
Age: any. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.
You may qualify if…
- The community must be located in one of the four participating states: Kentucky, Ohio, Massachusetts, or New York.
- At least 30% of the communities selected within each state must be rural.
- Across all the HCS communities within each state, there must be a minimum of 150 opioid-related overdose fatalities (with at least 22 opioid-related overdose fatalities experienced by the rural communities) and a rate of at least 25 opioid-related overdose fatalities per 100,000 persons, based on 2016 data.
- The community must express willingness to address in their response strategy the implementation of MOUD, overdose prevention training, and naloxone distribution across their community.
- The community must express willingness to develop partnerships across health care, behavioral health, and justice settings for evidence-based practices to address opioid misuse, OUD, and overdoses.
You may not qualify if…
- Communities that did not meet the aforementioned inclusion criteria were excluded from the HCS.
Where it is running
- University of Kentucky — Lexington, Kentucky, United States
- Boston Medical Center — Boston, Massachusetts, United States
- Columbia University — New York, New York, United States
- Ohio State University — Columbus, Ohio, United States
Full record on ClinicalTrials.gov
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