Project BEST: Buprenorphine Entry Into Substance Abuse Treatment

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2008-08-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

Project BEST is a clinical project funded by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) to increase treatment to opiate dependent patients with mental illness in New Haven, CT and to prospectively follow everyone enrolled in buprenorphine care for as long as the individual takes buprenorphine to track the success of buprenorphine for the maintenance of opiate dependence.

• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Yale University
• Treatments: Buprenorphine

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Opiate dependent by DSM IV criteria - to be determined by clinician - on buprenorphine through the Project BEST Program.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Inability to adhere to study instruments.