CURE Addiction Center of Excellence: Brain Mechanisms of Relapse and Recovery

Summary

The proposed project will use fMRI and specific probes of reward and inhibition as biomarkers predicting drug use during and after treatment in 72 subjects addicted to prescription opioids/medications. Subjects will be scanned before, during, and after 12 weeks of active medication. The brain fMRI measures will be correlated with the primary clinical outcome of drug use (by urine drug screen) during the treatment and follow-up phase.

Timeline

Start

2012-01

Primary completion

2021-01-01

Completion

2021-01-01

Publications

• Wang AL, Shi Z, Elman I, Langleben DD. Reduced cigarette smoking during injectable extended-release naltrexone treatment for opioid use disorder. Am J Drug Alcohol Abuse. 2020 Jul 3;46(4):472-477. doi: 10.1080/00952990.2020.1741001. Epub 2020 May 7.

Drugs

Indications