Opioid Adherence and Support Through Innovative Texting Strategies
Key facts
- Who runs it
- University of New Mexico
- Where
- Albuquerque, United StatesSee the site
- Trial code
- Status
- Recruiting
- People taking part
- 60 people, planned
- Started
- 13 Oct 2025
- Expected to end
- Mar 2029
- Type of study
- Interventional
- Treatments tested
- Mindfulness text messages
- Record updated
- 20 January 2026
Who can take part
- Age
- 18 years and older
- Sex
- Women and men
- Healthy volunteers
- Cannot take part
The registry criteria, word for word
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Who can take part
- 18 years of age or older
- Have a cellphone that can receive text messages
- Have internet access to complete study surveys
- Willing to comply with all study procedures and be available for the duration of the study
- Within 6 months of starting or resuming to take daily methadone or buprenorphine (or suboxone/subutex)
- Able to understand study requirements and provide informed consent
Who cannot take part
- None
Where in United States
- University of New MexicoAlbuquerque, United StatesContact: Frank Schwebel, PhDTaking people
About the trial
What the trial wants to find out
The goal of this clinical trial is to examine the effects of reminder and mindfulness text messages on medication adherence and managing craving, pain, and withdrawal symptoms in people taking medications for opioid use disorder through assessment questions collected twice daily during the course of treatment. The main questions it aims to answer are:
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1. Do daily medication reminder text messages increase medication adherence for people taking medications for opioid use disorder? 2. To what extent do people engage with the daily mindfulness messages? 3. What impact does daily mindfulness text message quantity have on craving, pain, forgetfulness, and withdrawal symptoms?
Participants will:
1. Receive daily medication reminder text messages for at least 24 weeks (i.e., 6 months) 2. Receive up to 6 mindfulness messages per day for 4 weeks (i.e., 1 month) 3. Answer daily questions twice a day during the 4 weeks of mindfulness messages 4. Answer questions about the study when enrolling, at the end of the 4 weeks of mindfulness messages, and at 4 and 16 weeks after the end of the mindfulness messages
The group in the trial
- Mindfulness text messagesTreatment being tested
Questions to ask the study team
- How often do I need to come in, and for how long each time?
- Are travel costs paid?
- Can I keep my own doctor?
- What happens if I want to stop?
Contact the study team: see the registry record → Contacts and Locations
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- Registry record
- Listed on ClinicalTrials.gov.
- Official title
- Integrating Mindfulness and mHealth Approaches for Treating Opioid Use Disorder
- Record updated
- 20 January 2026