Young Houston Emergency Opioid Engagement System

Description

The Houston Emergency Response Opioid Engagement System for Youths and Adolescents (Young HEROES) is a community-based research program integrating assertive outreach, medication for opioid use disorder (MOUD), behavioral counseling, and peer recovery support. The objective is to compare differences in engagement and retention in treatment for individuals with opioid use disorder. The investigators also intend to understand the prevalence of opioid overdoses and OUD among youth in Houston.

Conditions

Opioid-use Disorder, Opioid Dependence, Opioid Overdose, Opioid Use, Substance Use Disorders

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Study overview

The Houston Emergency Response Opioid Engagement System for Youths and Adolescents (Young HEROES) is a community-based research program integrating assertive outreach, medication for opioid use disorder (MOUD), behavioral counseling, and peer recovery support. The objective is to compare differences in engagement and retention in treatment for individuals with opioid use disorder. The investigators also intend to understand the prevalence of opioid overdoses and OUD among youth in Houston.

Houston Emergency Engagement System for Youths and Adolescents

Young Houston Emergency Opioid Engagement System

Condition
Opioid-use Disorder
Intervention / Treatment

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Contacts and Locations

Houston

The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas, United States, 77030

Participation Criteria

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.

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Eligibility Criteria

  • * In otherwise good health based on physician assessment and medical history
  • * Drug screen positive for opioids
  • * Patients express a willingness to stop opioid use
  • * Meet Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders - Text Revision (DSM-IV-TR) criteria for opioid dependence
  • * Patients must be able to speak English
  • * Be agreeable to and capable of signing the informed consent and assent (parent or guardian must consent, minor must assent)
  • * Non-English-speaking patients
  • * Have a known sensitivity to buprenorphine or naloxone
  • * Be physiologically dependent on alcohol, benzodiazepines, or other drugs of abuse that require immediate medical attention. Other substance use diagnoses are not exclusionary.
  • * Have a medical condition that would, in the opinion of the study physician, make participation medically hazardous, including unstable cardiovascular disease, neurological deficits, trauma, acute hepatitis, stroke, and liver or renal disease)
  • * Be acutely psychotic, severely depressed, and in need of inpatient treatment, or is an immediate suicide risk
  • * Be a nursing or pregnant female

Ages Eligible for Study

13 Years to 17 Years

Sexes Eligible for Study

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Collaborators and Investigators

The University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston,

James R Langabeer, PhD, PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR, The University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston

Study Record Dates

2027-08-31