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Adjunctive counseling during brief and extended buprenorphine-naloxone treatment for prescription opioid dependence: a 2-phase randomized controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Context

No randomized trials have examined treatments for prescription opioid dependence, despite its increasing prevalence.

Objective

To evaluate the efficacy of brief and extended buprenorphine hydrochloride-naloxone hydrochloride treatment, with different counseling intensities, for patients dependent on prescription opioids.

Design

Multisite, randomized clinical trial using a 2-phase adaptive treatment research design. Brief treatment (phase 1) included 2-week buprenorphine-naloxone stabilization, 2-week taper, and 8-week postmedication follow-up. Patients with successful opioid use outcomes exited the study; unsuccessful patients entered phase 2: extended (12-week) buprenorphine-naloxone treatment, 4-week taper, and 8-week postmedication follow-up.

Setting

Ten US sites. Patients A total of 653 treatment-seeking outpatients dependent on prescription opioids.

Interventions

In both phases, patients were randomized to standard medical management (SMM) or SMM plus opioid dependence counseling; all received buprenorphine-naloxone.

Main outcome measures

Predefined "successful outcome" in each phase: composite measures indicating minimal or no opioid use based on urine test-confirmed self-reports.

Results

During phase 1, only 6.6% (43 of 653) of patients had successful outcomes, with no difference between SMM and SMM plus opioid dependence counseling. In contrast, 49.2% (177 of 360) attained successful outcomes in phase 2 during extended buprenorphine-naloxone treatment (week 12), with no difference between counseling conditions. Success rates 8 weeks after completing the buprenorphine-naloxone taper (phase 2, week 24) dropped to 8.6% (31 of 360), again with no counseling difference. In secondary analyses, successful phase 2 outcomes were more common while taking buprenorphine-naloxone than 8 weeks after taper (49.2% [177 of 360] vs 8.6% [31 of 360], P < .001). Chronic pain did not affect opioid use outcomes; a history of ever using heroin was associated with lower phase 2 success rates while taking buprenorphine-naloxone.

Conclusions

Prescription opioid-dependent patients are most likely to reduce opioid use during buprenorphine-naloxone treatment; if tapered off buprenorphine-naloxone, even after 12 weeks of treatment, the likelihood of an unsuccessful outcome is high, even in patients receiving counseling in addition to SMM.

SUBMITTER: Weiss RD

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3470422 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Adjunctive counseling during brief and extended buprenorphine-naloxone treatment for prescription opioid dependence: a 2-phase randomized controlled trial.

Weiss Roger D RD Potter Jennifer Sharpe JS Fiellin David A DA Byrne Marilyn M Connery Hilary S HS Dickinson William W Gardin John J Griffin Margaret L ML Gourevitch Marc N MN Haller Deborah L DL Hasson Albert L AL Huang Zhen Z Jacobs Petra P Kosinski Andrzej S AS Lindblad Robert R McCance-Katz Elinore F EF Provost Scott E SE Selzer Jeffrey J Somoza Eugene C EC Sonne Susan C SC Ling Walter W

Archives of general psychiatry 20111107 12

<h4>Context</h4>No randomized trials have examined treatments for prescription opioid dependence, despite its increasing prevalence.<h4>Objective</h4>To evaluate the efficacy of brief and extended buprenorphine hydrochloride-naloxone hydrochloride treatment, with different counseling intensities, for patients dependent on prescription opioids.<h4>Design</h4>Multisite, randomized clinical trial using a 2-phase adaptive treatment research design. Brief treatment (phase 1) included 2-week buprenorp ...[more]

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Adjunctive counseling during brief and extended buprenorphine-naloxone treatment for prescription opioid dependence: a 2-phase randomized controlled trial.

Context

Objective

Design

Setting

Interventions

Main outcome measures

Results

Conclusions

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Adjunctive counseling during brief and extended buprenorphine-naloxone treatment for prescription opioid dependence: a 2-phase randomized controlled trial.

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