Prospective Cohort of Opiate Dependent Patients on Buprenorphine/Naloxone for Maintenance (Project BEST)

Yale University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Opiate Dependence

Treatments: Other: Mobile Access

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00622596

0504027630

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study was to expand access to buprenorphine using a mobile health care system among marginalized populations with or at high risk for HIV and observe longitudinal effects of treatment.

Enrollment: 200 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 75 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• HIV +
• At high risk for HIV (IV drug use, commercial sex worker, partner of HIV+)
• Mental Health (unmanaged or diagnosed mental illness)

Exclusion criteria

• Benzodiazepine use
• Opiate use due to pain management issues only (present or past)
• Non-IDU

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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200 participants in 1 patient group

Mobile Access to Buprenorphine

Experimental group

Description:

High risk populations accessing a mobile health care system can obtain Buprenorphine for treatment.

Treatment:

Other: Mobile Access