Discontinuation From Chronic Opioid Therapy For Pain Using a Buprenorphine Taper
Status:
Completed
Trial end date:
2021-01-13
Target enrollment:
Participant gender:
Summary
Chronic opioid therapy for pain can be associated with significant risks, and a significant
number of patients maintained on chronic opioids have continued pain and/or poor functioning.
When patients need to or want to come off their opioid pain medications, there is little to
guide physicians as to how to best help them do so, and it is not known how patients do after
coming off opioid medications. The goals of this study are (1) to evaluate two medications in
assisting patients in coming off their opioid pain medications and (2) determining outcomes
after discontinuing opioids.