Chronic Pain, Opioids, and Anger Treatment
Status unconfirmed · Not applicable
Conditions studied: Anger, Opioid Use, Chronic Pain
In brief
The current US opioid epidemic is a pressing public health concern. Links between opioid misuse and mortality are well-known; nearly 70% of all drug overdose deaths in 2017 were attributable to opioids. Given their pain-relieving properties, opioids have been widely used in the chronic pain population who are also susceptible to misuse of these analgesics.. In chronic pain patients with anger, the pain as well as opioid use may be aggravated. For example, suppression of anger has been linked with increased pain sensitivity in experiments, while anger-hostility scores and internalized anger predict pain severity variance and pain intensity, respectively. Anger is also linked with drug use/abuse, including opioids. The goal of this research is to implement a state-of-the-art program for anger regulation in chronic pain patients., Called Cognitive Behavioral Affective Therapy (CBAT), this program is evaluated on multiple measures of anger, sensory versus affective measures of pain, and measures of opioid misuse. CBAT is expected to reduce anger, and thereby produce reduction in pain as well as shift attitudes away from opioid misuse..
Key facts
- Study ID
- NCT04438746
- Run by
- The University of Texas at San Antonio
- People needed
- 51
- Starts
- 2020-07-01
- Expected to finish
- 2023-01-01
- Last updated by the study team
- 2022-05-20
Who can join
Age: 18 and older, up to 65. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.
You may qualify if…
- taking opioid pain relievers for at least 3 months in the past 12 months
- maladaptive levels of anger as measured by STAXI-2
- without psychiatric co-morbidity (e.g., major depression, substance use disorder, etc.)
- not undergoing current psychological/psychiatric treatment
- speak English.
Where it is running
- University of Texas at San Antonio — San Antonio, Texas, United States
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