Fighting Addictions, Improving Lives: COmprehensive Drug Rehabilitation With Music

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Conditions studied: Substance Use Disorder (SUD)

In brief

FALCO is a parallel pragmatic randomized control trial addressing long-term effects of music therapy (MT) on substance use disorder (SUD). 600 participants will be recruited from multiple European countries (see Locations). They will be randomized into one of the following intervention arms: Active Music Group (AMG), Music Listening Group (MLG) or Treatment as Usual (TAU) as offered locally.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT07028983

Run by

NORCE Norwegian Research Centre AS

People needed

600

Starts

2025-07-01

Expected to finish

2037-06-30

Last updated by the study team

2026-05-01

Who can join

Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• patients seeking or receiving treatment at the recruitment site for an existing substance use disorder based on ICD-10 criteria
• ≥18 years old
• not currently undergoing detoxification (detoxification has been completed or is not currently planned at the time of recruitment)
• any type of substance use including polysubstance and alcohol use

You may not qualify if…

• exclusively nicotine dependence
• psychotic episode in the last 3 months
• insufficient language skills to participate in treatment without the use of a translator
• hearing impairment that considerably impairs hearing of music played at a moderate volume (not relevant if hearing is sufficiently compensated by a hearing aid)
• existing diagnosis of dementia
• is currently receiving music therapy or has received music therapy (i.e. at planned and reoccurring intervals, not counting single random occurrences) during the past year

Where it is running

• University of Pavia — Pavia, Italy (enrolling)
• WOTU / University of Gdansk — Gdansk, Poland (enrolling)
• Fundacio Sanitaria d'Igualada — Barcelona, Spain (enrolling)
• Herzog College — Jerusalem, Israel (enrolling)
• CAD — Zurich, Switzerland (enrolling)
• IDIBGI — Girona, Spain
• Stavanger Universitetssjukehus — Stavanger, Norway
• University of Bergen / NORCE Research AS — Bergen, Norway
• Sykehuset Innlandet — Innlandet, Norway
• Anton Proksch Institut — Vienna, Austria
• Palestinian National Rehabilitation Centre — Bethlehem, Palestinian Territories

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