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Light Needle for Opioid Use Disorder

NCT05341219 · Status: UNKNOWN · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 100

Last updated 2023-05-03

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Summary

This randomized-controlled study investigates the effect of adjuvant light needle in the treatment of heroin addicts. One hundred heroin addicts older than 20 years old enrolled from the Addiction Treatment Center at Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital and Department of Psychiatry at Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital are randomly allocated to experimental or control group. Subjects in experimental group are treated with light needle on the wrist pulse (Cunkou) 12 times within 4 weeks. Subjects in the control group received a sham light needle treatment, without any laser output. Outcome measurements include check of urine morphine, report of the subjects' times or days of heroin use, self-filling Visual Analogue Scales of heroin craving / refusal of heroin use (0-10 points) during last week, report of the subjects' quality of life using Short Form-12v2, and record of the subject's pulse diagnosis and heart rate variability before and after treatment.

Conditions

Interventions

PROCEDURE

Light needle therapy

The study participants will receive 12 sessions of light needle therapy within 4 weeks using a gallium aluminum arsenide Physiolaser olympic (maximal power, 60mW; wavelength, 655 nm; area of probe, 0.008 cm2; power density, 7.5 W/cm2; pulsed-wave; RJ-Laser, Reimers \& Janssen GmbH, Waldkirch, Germany). Those in the experimental group received a total 135 J of energy delivered from 6 light needles being placed between LU7 and LU9. The light needle therapy was applied to each point for 15 min.

PROCEDURE

Sham light needle therapy

The study participants will receive 12 sessions of sham light needle therapy, without any laser output (no stimulation), within 4 weeks using a gallium aluminum arsenide Physiolaser olympic. Those in the control group received 0 J of energy delivered from 6 light needles being placed between LU7 and LU9 for 15 min.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Kaohsiung Medical University

    collaborator OTHER

  • Chang Gung Memorial Hospital

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Wen-Long Hu, MD, MS · Chief, Division of Acupuncture, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
DOUBLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
20 Years
Max Age
70 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2022-03-18
Primary Completion
2024-02-14
Completion
2024-02-14

Countries

  • Taiwan

Study Locations

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