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| Portland VA Medical Center | FED |
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The goal of this clinical trial is to identify sex-specific biomarkers that confer greater susceptibility for Alcohol Use Disorder (AUD) and differentiate how treatment response varies by sex in people with Alcohol Use Disorder.
The main questions it aims to answer are:
Participants will
Researchers will compare naltrexone to placebo in AUD to see if naltrexone is effective in reducing alcohol cravings and promoting abstinence.
Researchers will also compare baseline measures between AUD and Healthy Controls.
A twelve-week randomized placebo-controlled trial of naltrexone (NTX) will be conducted in one hundred people with alcohol use disorder (AUD), fifty of which will be women. Fifty healthy participants will serve as controls for baseline measures. We will use validated measures to comprehensively assess trauma exposure including: military sexual trauma (MST), physical or sexual assault, combat exposure, intimate partner violence, and other traumatic events. Emotion regulation will be assessed with the Cognitive Emotion Regulation questionnaire and Difficulty in Emotion Regulation scale. Functional magnetic resonance imaging at rest and during an emotion regulation task will assess limbic system connectivity and reactivity. Inflammation will be indexed with a multiplex panel assay of peripheral inflammatory markers. Days of alcohol use and average weekly standard drinks will be assessed at each time-point.
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| Label | Type | Description | Intervention Names |
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| Alcohol Use Disorder (AUD) | Experimental | Drug: Naltrexone Half of the study participants with AUD will take an oral tablet of 50 mg naltrexone once daily for one week followed by 11 weeks of 100 mg naltrexone orally, once daily. Drug: Placebo oral tablet The other half of study participants will receive an identical looking placebo in tablet form and take the medication using an identical schedule as the real drug. Drug type will be randomized. |
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| Healthy Controls | No Intervention | Baseline measures will be taken but controls will not continue to the drug trial. |
| Name | Type | Description | Arm Group Labels | Other Names |
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| Naltrexone | Drug | 12-week randomized double blinded placebo-controlled drug trial titrating drug/placebo dose after 1 week. |
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| Measure | Description | Time Frame |
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| Change from baseline in alcohol use (number of drinking days, amount used per day) | Drinking days and average number of weekly standard drinks will be measured at baseline and at follow-up | Baseline and Week 12 |
| Changes from baseline in peripheral immune biomarkers associated with inflammation | Plasma samples will be analyzed using a customized, high-sensitivity magnetic bead multiplex assay Luminex system. Samples will be prepared and analyzed to measure peripheral immune markers: interleukin (IL)-1-beta, IL-6, IL-10, tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-alpha, brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF), monocyte chemotactic protein (MCP)-1 and neural cell adhesion molecule (NCAM). Intra-and inter-assay coefficients of variation, as indices of within-and between-assay precision, respectively, will be calculated to examine the reliability of cytokine measurements. | Baseline and Week 12 |
| Changes in limbic functional connectivity | Resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (rs-fMRI) will be used to assess changes in limbic system connectivity. Correlation coefficients of low-frequency oscillations in the fMRI blood oxygenation level dependent (BOLD) signal between regions and between large-scale resting-state networks in the brain will be z-score transformed. A score of 0 indicates no change while higher or lower scores indicate increased or decreased connectivity, respectively. | Baseline and Week 12 |
| Changes from baseline in BOLD signal brain activation during an emotion regulation fMRI task | The task will assess emotional reactivity and regulation to negative and stressful images. Each event (cue, neutral-look, negative-look, negative-reappraise and rating scale of negative affect) will be modeled using a canonical hemodynamic response function with a time derivative. The contrasts of interest will be Negative-look vs Neutral-look and Negative-look vs Negative-reappraise. Amygdala BOLD signal estimates will be extracted to calculate percent-change. |
| Measure | Description | Time Frame |
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| Change from baseline in craving (include craving measures/questionnaires) | The Brief Alcohol Craving Scale, a 10-item self-report assessment of craving, will be used. Participants will be prompted with a statement regarding alcohol cravings and will choose an answer ranging between "strongly disagree" and "strongly agree." | Baseline and Week 12 |
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Inclusion Criteria:
Alcohol Group:
Control Group:
Exclusion Criteria:
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| Name | Role | Phone | Extension | |
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| Jazryn Nagum | Contact | 503-721-7964 | vhaporhoffmanlab@va.gov |
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| Facility | Status | City | State | ZIP | Country | Contacts |
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| VA Portland Health Care System | Recruiting | Portland | Oregon | 97239 | United States |
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| ID | Term |
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| D000437 | Alcoholism |
| ID | Term |
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| D019973 | Alcohol-Related Disorders |
| D019966 | Substance-Related Disorders |
| D064419 | Chemically-Induced Disorders |
| D001523 | Mental Disorders |
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| ID | Term |
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| D009271 | Naltrexone |
| ID | Term |
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| D009270 | Naloxone |
| D009019 | Morphinans |
| D053610 | Opiate Alkaloids |
| D000470 | Alkaloids |
| D006571 |
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| Baseline and Week 12 |
| Changes from baseline in emotion regulation assessed with the Difficulty in Emotion Regulation Scale (DERS) | DERS is a 36-item self-report questionnaire scored on a 5-point scale from 1 (almost never) to 5 (almost always), with total score ranging from 36 to 180. It measures emotion regulation difficulties across six dimensions: 1. Non-acceptance of emotional responses, 2. Difficulties engaging in goal-directed behavior, 3. Impulse control difficulties, 4. Lack of emotional awareness, 5. Limited access to effective emotion regulation strategies, 6. Lack of emotional clarity. Higher scores suggest greater difficulties in emotion regulation. | Baseline and Week 12 |
| Changes from baseline in emotion regulation assessed with the Cognitive Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (CERQ) | CERQ is a 36-item self-report questionnaire that identifies cognitive emotion regulation or cognitive coping strategies used after having experienced negative events or situations. Scores can identify individual strategies to compare with normed scores from various populations. The nine cognitive emotion regulation strategies are measured on a 5-point Likert scale ranging from 1 to 5, with scores being obtained by calculating the mean scores belonging to a particular subscale. Higher subscale scores indicate greater use of a specific cognitive strategy. | Baseline and Week 12 |
| Differences in baseline trauma exposure (composite score) | Department of Veterans Affairs Military Sexual Trauma Screening consists of two questions used nationally within the Veterans Heath Administration (VHA) to screen for MST. Response options are yes, no, or decline to respond. Trauma Assessment for Adults (TAA) is a 17-item self-report on combat exposure, physical or sexual assault, surviving serious accidents and other threatening life events. Life Stressor Checklist-Revised (LSC-R) includes self-report measures relevant to women such as abortion or caregiver duties, in addition to 30 life events related to natural disasters, physical or sexual assault, death of a relative, incarceration and financial hardships. Childhood Maltreatment questionnaire is 70 items in five dimensions: emotional, physical, and sexual abuse, and physical and emotional neglect. A 7-point scale will be used to indicate level of trauma | Baseline and Week 12 |
| Change from baseline in neuropsychological testing scores | The Standard Neuropsychological Battery will be used | Baseline and Week 12 |
| Heterocyclic Compounds |
| D006572 | Heterocyclic Compounds, Bridged-Ring |
| D006576 | Heterocyclic Compounds, 4 or More Rings |
| D000072471 | Heterocyclic Compounds, Fused-Ring |
| D010616 | Phenanthrenes |
| D011084 | Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons |
| D011083 | Polycyclic Compounds |