Risky Decision Making in Methamphetamine Users: The Role of Opioid Blockade

Summary

The purpose of this protocol is to learn more about impulsive decision making in people who use methamphetamines. The investigators would like to know if a medication called naltrexone changes how people make decisions. The investigators would also like to know whether changes in decision making can be observed by MRI (magnetic resonance imaging). The research is conducted in Portland, OR.

Timeline

Start

2013-05

Primary completion

2015-03

Completion

2015-03

Publications

• Kohno M, Morales AM, Dennis LE, McCready H, Hoffman WF, Korthuis PT. Effects of Naltrexone on Large-Scale Network Interactions in Methamphetamine Use Disorder. Front Psychiatry. 2019 Sep 3;10:603. doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2019.00603. eCollection 2019.
• Kohno M, Dennis LE, McCready H, Schwartz DL, Hoffman WF, Korthuis PT. A preliminary randomized clinical trial of naltrexone reduces striatal resting state functional connectivity in people with methamphetamine use disorder. Drug Alcohol Depend. 2018 Nov 1;192:186-192. doi: 10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2018.07.045. Epub 2018 Sep 21.

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