Completed

Feasibility Study of Take-Home LAAM Medication

What is being tested

Data Collection

Who is being recruted

Narcotic-Related Disorders+2

+ Mental Disorders

+ Opioid-Related Disorders

From 18 to 99 Years

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How is the trial designed

Treatment Study

Phase 4

Interventional

Study Start: March 1995

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Summary

Principal SponsorUniversity of California, Los Angeles

Last updated: January 27, 2026

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Study start date: March 1, 1995

Actual date on which the first participant was enrolled.

1-Year study, participant will be randomly assigned to one of two groups: One will have the opportunity to earn take-home doses by turning in a designated number of clean urines. Two will not have the opportunity to earn take-home doses. Clinic visits three times per week. Urine sample given at each visit.

Official TitleFeasibility Study of Take-Home LAAM Medication

NCT00000300

Principal SponsorUniversity of California, Los Angeles

Last updated: January 27, 2026

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Protocol

This section provides details of the study plan, including how the study is designed and what the study is measuring.

Treatment Study

These studies test new ways to treat a disease, condition, or health issue. The goal is to see if a new drug, therapy, or approach works better or has fewer side effects than existing options.

Eligibility

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria: person's general health condition or prior treatments.

Conditions

Criteria

Any sex

Biological sex of participants that are eligible to enroll.

From 18 to 99 Years

Range of ages for which participants are eligible to join.

Healthy volunteers not allowed

If individuals who are healthy and do not have the condition being studied can participate.

Conditions

Pathology

Narcotic-Related DisordersMental DisordersOpioid-Related DisordersSubstance-Related DisordersChemically-Induced Disorders

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria: meets DSM-IV criteria for opiate dependence. M/F, 18 years or older. Certified for LAAm treatment by a physician. Able to understand english. Willing to provide names, addresses, and numbers of 3 relatives who can aid in patient location for follow-up visits. Exclusion Criteria: Hypertensive to LAAM. Pregnant or nursing women. Female of childbearing potential who refuses to use an acceptable form of birth control. Clinically significant abnormality in hematology, blood work, or UA, ETOH and/or sedative/hypnotic dependence according to DSM-IV criteria. Medical or psychiatric illness which would jeopardize safe study participation.

Study Plan

Find out more about all the medication administered in this study, their detailed description and what they involve.

Study Objectives

Primary Objectives

Study Centers

These are the hospitals, clinics, or research facilities where the trial is being conducted. You can find the location closest to you and its status.

This study has 1 location

Suspended

Friends Research Institute

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CompletedOne Study Center