Short and long-term improvements in psychiatric symptomatology to validate clinically meaningful treatment outcomes for cocaine use disorders

AQC Miguel, BD Kiluk, TA Babuscio, C Nich… - Drug and Alcohol …, 2019 - Elsevier
Background Substantial efforts have been made to identify clinically meaningful non-
abstinence cocaine use outcomes by establishing associations between targeted drug use …

Initial validation of a proxy indicator of functioning as a potential tool for establishing a clinically meaningful cocaine use outcome

BD Kiluk, TA Babuscio, C Nich, KM Carroll - Drug and alcohol dependence, 2017 - Elsevier
Background Establishing a non-abstinence cocaine use outcome as clinically meaningful
has been elusive, in part due to the lack of association between cocaine use outcomes and …

Detecting change in psychiatric functioning in clinical trials for cocaine use disorder: sensitivity of the Addiction Severity Index and Brief Symptom Inventory

BD Kiluk, CR Roos, M Aslan, R Gueorguieva… - Drug and alcohol …, 2021 - Elsevier
Background Assessment instruments commonly used in clinical trials to measure functional
outcomes in substance users may lack sensitivity to detect change during treatment …

[HTML][HTML] Measuring outcome in the treatment of cocaine dependence

P Crits-Christoph, R Gallop, MBC Gibbons… - Journal of alcoholism …, 2013 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background Little in known about the extent to which outcome measures used in studies of
the treatment of cocaine dependence are associated with longer-term use and with broader …

Patient perspectives on current and potential therapies and clinical trial approaches for cocaine use disorder

S Maahs, D Leclair, B Gomez-Mancilla, BD Kiluk… - Frontiers in …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Background Cocaine use disorder (CUD) is characterized by the continued use of cocaine
despite serious impacts on life. This study focused on understanding the perspective of …

Patterns of cocaine use during treatment: associations with baseline characteristics and follow-up functioning

CR Roos, C Nich, CJ Mun, J Mendonca… - Journal of studies on …, 2019 - jsad.com
Objective: Abstinence outcomes are typically prioritized in the treatment of cocaine use
disorder while ignoring patterns of low-frequency cocaine use. This study examined patterns …

Examining cocaine use reductions and long-term outcomes in two clinical trials of continuing care for cocaine dependence

VR Votaw, FR Tuchman, CR Roos, HM Hebden… - Journal of Substance …, 2024 - Elsevier
Background There is a need to identify clinically meaningful non-abstinent endpoints for
cocaine use disorder (CUD) clinical trials. In this study, we sought to replicate and extend …

Pharmacotherapeutic strategies for treating cocaine use disorder—what do we have to offer?

L Brandt, T Chao, SD Comer, FR Levin - Addiction, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Background Cocaine use contines to be a significant public health problem world‐wide.
However, despite substantial research efforts, no pharmacotherapies are approved for the …

Predictors of cocaine use disorder treatment outcomes: a systematic review

A Palazón-Llecha, B Caparrós, J Trujols… - Systematic …, 2024 - Springer
Background Psychosocial approaches are the first-line treatments for cocaine dependence,
although they still present high dropout and relapse rates. Thus, there is a pressing need to …

Cocaine use disorder (CUD): current clinical perspectives

EKC Schwartz, NR Wolkowicz… - Substance Abuse and …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Cocaine use disorder (CUD) is a devastating disorder, impacting both individuals and
society. Individuals with CUD face many barriers in accessing treatment for CUD, and most …