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Naltrexone Augmentation of Nicotine Patch Therapy - 1

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National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Status and phase

Completed
Phase 3

Conditions

Tobacco Use Disorder

Treatments

Drug: Naltrexone

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

NIH

Identifiers

NCT00218153
NIDA-13334-1
P50-13334-1

Details and patient eligibility

About

Naltrexone Augmentation of Nicotine Patch Therapy

Full description

This double blind placebo controlled study is designed to determine whether naltrexone can be used to help reduce cigarette use and craving for cigarettes. Eligible participants will receive 21mg transdermal nicotine as an outpatient. In addition, participants will receive one of three doses of naltrexone (25,50 or 100mg) or a placebo and brief counseling over the course of six weeks with follow-up appointments three, six, and twelve months after the beginning of treatment.

Sex

All

Ages

18 to 99 years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

  1. Age 18 and older
  2. Willingness and ability to give written consent
  3. Smoking 20 cigarettes per day for at least 1 year
  4. At least one prior attempt to stop smoking
  5. Baseline expired carbon-monoxide level of at least 10 ppm
  6. Weigh at least 100 lbs.
  7. English speaking
  8. One person per household

Exclusion criteria

  1. Pregnant or nursing women or women who do not use a reliable form of birth control
  2. Unstable cardiac disease
  3. History of dermatoses
  4. Current alcohol dependence
  5. Current use of opiates
  6. A urine drug screen that is positive for opiates
  7. Serious current neurologic, psychiatric or medical illness
  8. Chronic pain conditions necessitating opioid treatment
  9. Evidence of significant hepatocellular injury as evidence by SGOT or SGPT >3 x normal or elevated bilirubin
  10. Current use of smokeless tobacco, pipes, cigars, nicotine gum or nicotine patch
  11. Patients requiring concomitant therapy with any psychotropic drug or on any drug with a psychotropic component

Trial design

Primary purpose

Treatment

Allocation

Randomized

Interventional model

Parallel Assignment

Masking

Double Blind

Trial contacts and locations

2

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