Substance Abuse Treatment for High Risk Chronic Pain Patients on Opioid Therapy
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Chronic back pain patients are often dismissed from a pain center or a primary care practice when they are noncompliant with opioid therapy, instead of being offered treatments to reduce misuse and to improve compliance. Unfortunately, there are few treatment resources for such patients. This study seeks to remedy that problem, with the goal of reducing the rate of prescription opioid misuse among noncompliant patients through the use of novel tracking, education, and counseling interventions.
Full description
This study will evaluate drug misuse behavior over 6 months with the use of self-report questionnaires, physician ratings, urine toxicology screens, and electronic diary data.
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Inclusion criteria
- chronic pain for >6 months
- history of taking daily opioids for pain for >6 months
- average >3 on a pain intensity scale of 0 to 10 over past week
- able to speak and understand English
- chronic neck or back pain as primary pain complaint
- willingness to participate
Exclusion criteria
- current opioid addiction (M.I.N.I. Section K)
- current diagnosis of cancer or any other malignant disease
- acute osteomyelitis or acute bone disease
- nonambulatory
- present or past DSM-IV diagnosis of schizophrenia, delusional disorder, psychotic disorder, or dissociative disorder
- pregnancy
- any clinically unstable systemic illness judged to interfere with treatment
- an acute condition requiring surgery
- taking opioids intermittently
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84 participants in 3 patient groups
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