Recruiting

RCC & Enhanced Treatment

Sponsor:

Massachusetts General Hospital

Code:

NCT07010978

Conditions

Opioid Use Disorder

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 18+

Healthy Volunteers: Not accepted

Interventions

Recovery Community Center Participation

Enhance Treatment as Usual

Study Details

Brief summary:

The goal of this pilot randomized clinical trial is to prepare for a larger randomized clinical trial (RCT) and collect some early data to learn if the intervention can help people who use medications for opioid use disorder (MOUD). The main questions it aims to answer are:

1. Is it feasible to recruit and randomize people to both treatment groups?
2. Does linking people to recovery community centers lead to better recovery outcomes?

Researchers will compare linking people to recovery community centers (RCC) to enhanced treatment as usual to see if recovery outcomes are different.

In one group, participants will learn about their local RCC and will be asked to visit their local RCC on at least two days and write about their experiences. In the other group, participants will learn about different recovery activities, pick any two, and do the activities of their choice on at least two days. They will also be asked to write about their experiences.

People in both groups will answer online survey questions about their recovery outcomes and well-being in five surveys over one year.

Conditions

Opioid Use Disorder

Study ID

NCT07010978

Start date

Aug 20, 2025

Status verified date

Jul, 2025

Completion date

Apr 15, 2027

Anticipated

Primary completion date

Aug 31, 2026

Anticipated

Eligibility Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 18+

Healthy Volunteers: Not accepted

Inclusion Criteria:

  • 18+ years of age
  • Uses MOUD (at enrollment; participants may stop using MOUD subsequently) to treat OUD
  • Receives MOUD from a clinic/pharmacy located within 15 miles of an RCC vetted by our study team, which serves a Black community (i.e., defined as being located in a ZIP code where ≥27% of the residents are Black, as per US Census)
  • Is willing and able to engage in study procedures (i.e., online surveys, timeline follow back interview)
  • Is willing to be randomized

Exclusion Criteria:

\- Has visited a vetted RCC during the past 3 months

Study Design

Enrollment

128 participants

Anticipated

Allocation

Randomized

Intervention Model

Parallel Assignment

Primary purpose

Health Services Research

Interventions and Outcome Measures

Arms

experimental: Recovery Community Center (RCC) Linkage

These participants will be assigned to visit their local recovery community center at least twice, on two different days, within the first month of the study and to report on their RCC visits.

active comparator: Enhanced Treatment as Usual (ETAU)

These participants will be asked to complete any recovery activity of their choosing at least twice, on two different days, within the first month of the study and to report on their chosen recovery activities.

Interventions

Recovery Community Center Participation

Recovery community centers are brick and mortar buildings that house recovery-oriented organizations, located in the heart of their communities. They act as recovery hubs, offering a variety of recovery support services in house as well as connecting participants to resources in their area. They are peer-led organizations that are open to anyone in early or long-term recovery from substance use and that recognize that there are multiple pathways to recovery. Study participants will be provided with information about their local RCC (including a video link, contact information, a monthly calendar of events, a list of services and activities offered by the RCC, transportation options, etc.) and will be asked to visit the RCC on two different occasions within one month of enrollment.

Enhance Treatment as Usual

In this study, the enhanced treatment as usual intervention will encompass providing participants with information about diverse recovery activities (e.g., mutual help group meetings, exercise, job search, recovery coach meetings, etc.) and then to assign participants to complete a recovery activity of their choosing one two different days within one month after enrollment. Participants can do the same activity twice, or different activities on each of the two days assigned.

Primary outcome measure

  • Recruitment Rate [ Time Frame: Baseline ]

Central Contacts and Locations

Central contacts

Bettina Hoeppner, Ph.D., M.S.

617-643-1988bhoeppner@mgh.harvard.edu

Susanne Hoeppner, PhD, MApStat

617-643-9934shoeppner@mgh.harvard.edu

Locations

Massachusetts General Hospital

Recruiting

Boston, Massachusetts, United States, 02114

Contacts

Bettina Hoeppner, Ph.D., M.S.

6176431988bhoeppner@mgh.harvard.edu

More Information

Sponsor

Massachusetts General Hospital

Last update posted

Sep 26, 2025

Last verified

Jul, 2025

Keywords

  • opioid use disorder
  • moud
  • medications for opioid use disorder
  • recovery
  • recovery community centers

Trial information was received from ClinicalTrials.gov and was last updated on 2026-09-10. This information was provided to ClinicalTrials.gov by Massachusetts General Hospital on 2025-09-26.