Effect of Clonidine on Imagery Scripts (Drug Related Obsession/Cues): Baltimore

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Effect of Clonidine on Imagery Scripts

This is a study of the effects of clonidine: how it affects responses to stress and to things that remind people of drugs. Clonidine is being compared to placebo. Participants listen to taped imagery scripts that invoke neutral, stress, and drug cues. Physiological and psychological measures are collected.

http://www.clinicaltrials.gov/ct/show/NCT00318760

Inclusion Criteria:
Inclusion Criteria:
evidence of cocaine or heroin use

Exclusion Criteria:
medical or psychiatric disorders that would contraindicate administration of clonidine; medications with known interactions with clonidine

Started August 2005; currently in progress and accepting new participants.

Contact
Please refer to this study by ClinicalTrials.gov identifier NCT00318760

Kenzie Preston, Ph.D. 410-550-1639

United States, Maryland
NIDA IRP, Baltimore, Maryland, 21224, United States; Recruiting

Study chairs or principal investigators

Kenzie Preston, Ph.D., Principal Investigator, NIDA IRP

(Please do not PM me in regards to this, I am not affiliated with this research)

 

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Psychopharmacology (Berl). Author manuscript; available in PMC 2012 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as:
Psychopharmacology (Berl). 2011 Nov; 218(1): 83–88.
Published online 2011 Mar 12. doi: 10.1007/s00213-011-2230-7

Clonidine blocks stress-induced craving in cocaine users
Michelle L. Jobes,corresponding author Udi E. Ghitza, David H. Epstein, Karran A. Phillips, Stephen J. Heishman, and Kenzie L. Preston​