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NCT00659035Active, not recruiting

Use of Driving Tests to Evaluate Patient Performance on Oral Opioids

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 8 Jan 2026

Brief summary (registry, in English)

Many patients seen at Pain Centers are advised not to drive if they are on long-term opioid medications. Although such advice is routinely given considering patients' safety, unnecessary restrictions to driving can cause inconvenience to the patients and delay their treatment. Such restrictions also pose social and legal questions to patients and physicians. The investigators would like to test such patients' ability to drive under oral opioids using a driving simulator at the Pain Center. This simulator is like a video game with computer and a steering wheel to simulate real life driving. The driving simulator provides measure on several outcome measures, such as attention, reaction time, etc. allowing us to specifically address question pertaining to any cognitive or behavioral differences.

Status (registry)
Active, not recruiting
Study type
Observational
Enrollment
450 (estimated)
First submitted
30 Jan 2008
Start date
Apr 2008
Primary completion date
Dec 2026
Lead sponsor
Asokumar Buvanendran
NCT number
NCT00659035

What you commit to

  • Study type: Observational
  • Planned participants: 450
  • From Apr 2008 to the primary completion date, Dec 2026
  • 1 site in 1 country
  • Visits and tests: ask the trial team, the registry does not list them

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Who cannot take part

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Other illness

  • Any other drug or condition that would impair driving ability
  • History of seizures

Who the study is looking for

  • Driving license

Age in the registry: 18 years to 80 years · Sex: All · Accepts healthy volunteers

Full criteria on ClinicalTrials.gov

Sites (1)

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Rush University Medical Center
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ChicagoUnited StatesUnknown status

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