Clinical Research Directory

Testing Implementation Strategies to Scale-up a Multicomponent Continuum of Service Intervention for Families Involved in Systems With Parental Opioid and Methamphetamine Use

This study will explore how to expand the Just Care for Families (JCFF) program beyond its current sites in Oregon, while addressing two main challenges: the developer team cannot provide ongoing support to every new program, and rural counties face limits on caseloads and reimbursement because of long travel distances. To overcome these barriers, the trial will test two strategies-using a JCFF mobile app to improve outcomes and efficiency, and relying on trained Experts (instead of the developer team) to guide new counties. With five active counties and four new ones, researchers will study whether parents receiving JCFF with digital support show reduced opioid and stimulant use, better child welfare outcomes like reunification, and more efficient treatment. This study will also compare how well new counties implement JCFF compared to existing ones, and use modeling to see if digital tools help programs sustain themselves by balancing caseloads and reimbursement. This study is supported by and included in the Helping to End Addiction Long-term Initiative (https://heal.nih.gov/).

The Co-Venture Trial: A Cluster Randomized Trial of Personality-targeted Interventions on Adolescent Substance Use and Cognitive Outcomes

The Preventure Program is the first and only school-based alcohol and drug prevention program that has been shown to prevent onset and growth in alcohol and substance misuse in British and Canadian youth. Unlike universal programs that tend to promote generic coping skills and balance normative attitudes around substance use, this selected personality-targeted approach is based on a psychosocial model and validated by Dr Patricia Conrod and targets four personality-specific motivational pathways to substance misuse: Hopelessness, Anxiety Sensitivity, Impulsivity and Sensation Seeking, each associated with different motives for substance use, drug use profiles and patterns of non-addictive psychopathology. As a primary goal of the Coventure project, the investigators propose a long-term trial of this intervention strategy to examine how this evidence-based intervention can reduce onset of substance use disorders in young people and related secondary mental health, academic and cognitive outcomes. As a secondary goal, the investigators propose to use sensitive neuropsychological measures to examine how this evidence-based intervention can positively impact on cognitive development over the course of adolescence, to tease apart some of the mechanisms involved in the causal pathway from early onset substance use to poor cognitive development and long-term addiction outcomes.

Evaluation of the ADD'Pro Vocational Reintegration Program (ADD-PRO-EVAL)

The goal of this clinical trial is to evaluate whether an integrated medico-psychosocial vocational support program (ADD'Pro) can improve employment outcomes in adults with substance use disorders receiving care at a specialized addiction day hospital. The main question it aims to answer is: \- Does participation in the ADD'Pro program increase the rate of competitive employment (at least one day worked in the open labour market) at 6 months compared to standard employment services? Researchers will compare participants enrolled in the ADD'Pro program to participants referred to conventional employment services (France Travail or Cap Emploi) to see if structured, dual medico-psychosocial support leads to higher rates of vocational reintegration, better employment preparation, improved quality of life, and reduced physiological stress reactivity. Participants will: * Be randomly assigned to either the ADD'Pro program or standard employment services * If assigned to ADD'Pro: receive immediate individualised support from a vocational counsellor (CIP) at the CeCler Association, running in parallel with their hospital addiction care, with no fixed end date * If assigned to standard care: be referred to conventional employment services with monthly follow-up interviews at the hospital, and the option to join ADD'Pro after 6 months * Complete structured interviews and validated questionnaires at inclusion, 3, 6, and 12 months * A sub-sample of up to 50 participants will additionally take part in a simulated job interview stress test (adapted TSST) with salivary biomarker collection and heart rate monitoring at inclusion and 6 months