Using AI and Peer Coaching to Address Racial Disparities Among People Who Use Opioids

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Conditions studied: Opioid Use Disorder

In brief

Black and Latinx people who use opioids are disproportionately impacted by opioid overdose deaths. The proposed study assesses the efficacy of an open source, multimodal artificial intelligence-driven texting tool combined with peer recovery coach-supported text contact that delivers social services, stigma reduction, health habitus, and patient navigation content addressing social determinants of health to enhance receipt of buprenorphine in primary care among emergency department-enrolled Black / Latinx people who use opioids.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT06569667

Run by

Friends Research Institute, Inc.

People needed

292

Starts

2025-03-28

Expected to finish

2026-08-31

Last updated by the study team

2025-08-12

Who can join

Age: 18 and older, up to 99. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• ≥18 years of age;
• fluent in English and/or Spanish;
• self-reported non-prescription opioid use <30 days prior to consent;
• provision of informed consent;
• planned stay in NYC ≥12 month;
• self-identified Black and/or Latinx race/ethnicity;
• positive urine toxicology for opioids per EMR records;
• diagnosis of OUD per the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders-5
• self-reported interest in initiating buprenorphine in primary care
• must have a mobile phone data plan.

You may not qualify if…

• inability to comprehend text content written at a 3rd grade reading level;
• physical or visual disability preventing mobile phone use;
• self-reported receipt of medications for OUD in past 30 days.

Where it is running

• NYC Health + Hospitals — The Bronx, New York, United States (enrolling)

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