CLINICAL TRIALS PROFILE FOR ACAMPROSATE CALCIUM
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All Clinical Trials for acamprosate calcium
| Trial ID | Title | Status | Sponsor | Phase | Start Date | Summary |
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| NCT00571103 ↗ | Acamprosate in the Treatment of Pathological Gambling | Completed | Forest Laboratories | Phase 4 | 2007-10-01 | The purpose of this study is to see whether acamprosate (Campral) will curb the desire to gamble in people with pathological gambling disorder. |
| NCT00571103 ↗ | Acamprosate in the Treatment of Pathological Gambling | Completed | University of Nebraska | Phase 4 | 2007-10-01 | The purpose of this study is to see whether acamprosate (Campral) will curb the desire to gamble in people with pathological gambling disorder. |
| NCT00571103 ↗ | Acamprosate in the Treatment of Pathological Gambling | Completed | University of Iowa | Phase 4 | 2007-10-01 | The purpose of this study is to see whether acamprosate (Campral) will curb the desire to gamble in people with pathological gambling disorder. |
| NCT00591565 ↗ | An 8 Week Open-Label Study to Evaluate the Efficacy and Safety of Acamprosate Calcium (Campral) as Augmentation Therapy in Patients With Anxiety Symptoms Who Are Only Partial Responders to SSRI or SNRI Antidepressants | Completed | Forest Laboratories | N/A | 2006-06-01 | This study is designed to evaluate anxious patients who are only partially responsive to typical SSRI or SNRI anti-anxiety medication therapy. Patients who are less than 50% anxiety-alleviated on their SSRI medication will be asked to join the study and be placed on Acamprosate as well. This type of add-on therapy is common in outpatient psychiatric care. This is a rater-blinded, patient open-label, non-placebo prospective study, where all subjects will receive Acamprosate for 8 weeks. This study would be the first to date in this treatment-resistant patient population, as the investigators will utilize the a comprehensive set of rating scales in order to best categorize patient responses in regards to anxiety, co-occurring depression, sleep disorders, alcohol use, and social functioning with this drug. This study may be pivotal to the initiation of future double-blind, placebo-controlled studies for this agent |
| NCT00591565 ↗ | An 8 Week Open-Label Study to Evaluate the Efficacy and Safety of Acamprosate Calcium (Campral) as Augmentation Therapy in Patients With Anxiety Symptoms Who Are Only Partial Responders to SSRI or SNRI Antidepressants | Completed | State University of New York - Upstate Medical University | N/A | 2006-06-01 | This study is designed to evaluate anxious patients who are only partially responsive to typical SSRI or SNRI anti-anxiety medication therapy. Patients who are less than 50% anxiety-alleviated on their SSRI medication will be asked to join the study and be placed on Acamprosate as well. This type of add-on therapy is common in outpatient psychiatric care. This is a rater-blinded, patient open-label, non-placebo prospective study, where all subjects will receive Acamprosate for 8 weeks. This study would be the first to date in this treatment-resistant patient population, as the investigators will utilize the a comprehensive set of rating scales in order to best categorize patient responses in regards to anxiety, co-occurring depression, sleep disorders, alcohol use, and social functioning with this drug. This study may be pivotal to the initiation of future double-blind, placebo-controlled studies for this agent |
| NCT00655967 ↗ | Safety of Acamprosate for Alcohol Dependence in the Elderly: An Open-Label Study (SAFADIE) | Unknown status | University of New Mexico | Phase 4 | 2006-12-01 | Alcohol abuse and dependence are very prevalent and result in significant morbidity, mortality and cost to society (Harwood 2000). Pharmacotherapies to assist with alcohol dependence consist of disulfiram, naltrexone and acamprosate. Of these, acamprosate is unique in that it is not metabolized by the liver, but rather completely excreted renally. In contrast, naltrexone is metabolized by the CYP450 system of the liver and less than 2% is excreted unchanged and can cause liver damage (PDR 2005). Multiple cases of hepatitis, including both cholestatic and fulminant hepatitis, as well as hepatic failure resulting in transplantation or death, have been reported with administration of disulfiram (PDR 2005). The incidence of liver disease among alcoholics is high and increases with age and years of drinking and this may preclude the use of antabuse or naltrexone to help alcohol dependent patients with liver disease or that are elderly . Thus acamprosate has a unique safety profile that would make it ideally suited for treating alcohol dependence in the elderly, even in the presence of hepatic impairment. The current study is to evaluate the safety profile of acamprosate in elderly patients with alcohol dependence. Acamprosate, calcium acetyl homotaurinate, has been approved in most European countries and the U.S. for the maintenance of abstinence in recently detoxified alcoholics. The mechanism of action involves primarily the restoration of a normal N-methyl- D -aspartate (NMDA) receptor tone in glutamatergic systems (Rammes et al 2001). Several trials of acamprosate confirm its efficacy in the maintenance of abstinence in alcohol dependence (Lesch et al. 2001; Slattery et al. 2003; Mann et al. 2004; Verheul et al. 2004). It also reduces the severity of relapse in alcoholics in abstinence based treatment programs (Chick et al. 2003). There is limited data on the safety of acamprosate in the elderly (PDR 2005). For the purposes of this study, elderly will be defined as 60 years or older. STUDY OBJECTIVE: To determine the short-term safety of Acamprosate in the treatment of alcohol dependence in the elderly. |
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