- ICH GCP
- US Clinical Trials Registry
- Clinical Trial NCT05945199
Effectiveness of tDCS on Reducing Craving in Patients Practicing Chemsex: a Single-center, Double-blind, Randomized Controlled Pilot Trial (CHEMSTIM)
The aim of this research is to evaluate the efficacy of a new treatment for chemsex or "chemical sex", the use of psychoactive substances to modify sexual experience and performance. This treatment, called Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) aims to modulate the cortical activity of brain areas involved in the desire to use psychoactive substances, or drugs, and the desire for uncontrolled sexual intercourse.
This treatment should therefore lead to a reduction in the craving for consumption of psychoactive substances and/or the practice of uncontrolled sexual activity.
The stakes of this new treatment are high, because chemsex exposes people to health risks for themselves and others. These risks include the risk of infection (skin infections, HIV infection, hepatitis viruses), psychological harms (anxiety attacks, depression, suicide risk), risk of addiction (addiction to the psychoactive product used, sex addiction), and toxicological harm (overdose, dangerous combination of psychoactive substances) or trauma (blows, trauma to the genitals or anorectal trauma).
To date, there is no proven therapeutic treatment for people wishing to reduce or stop chemsex.
40 participants will be randomized into 2 groups:
- 20 patients will receive active stimulation
- 20 patients will receive sham stimulation
The total duration of the study for each patient will be 13 weeks: 1 week of stimulation and 12 weeks of follow-up.
Study Overview
Status
Conditions
Intervention / Treatment
Study Type
Enrollment (Estimated)
Phase
- Not Applicable
Contacts and Locations
Study Contact
- Name: Benjamin PETIT
- Phone Number: 03.80.29.35.24
- Email: benjamin.petit@chu-dijon.fr
Study Locations
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Dijon, France
- CHU Dijon Bourgogne
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Contact:
- Benjamin PETIT
- Phone Number: 03.80.29.35.24
- Email: benjamin.petit@chu-dijon.fr
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Participation Criteria
Eligibility Criteria
Ages Eligible for Study
- Adult
- Older Adult
Accepts Healthy Volunteers
Description
Inclusion Criteria:
- Patient who provides written consent
- Patient aged ≥ 18 years
- Patient motivated and willing to change chemsex behavior, assessed by examiner during screening and inclusion visits
Patient using at least one of the following psychoactive substances to modify sexual performance and/or experience:
- Cathinones, or methamphetamine, or MDMA, or cocaine, or ketamine, or GBL/GHB
- ≥ 1 time per month over the past 6 months and/or ≥ 10 times over the past year
Exclusion Criteria:
- Patient with a substance use disorder not involved in the practice of chemsex
- Patient with a recent change (< 1 month) in the prescription of a psychotropic treatment
- Patient presenting an acute psychiatric condition requiring hospitalization and/or immediate modification of a psychotropic treatment
- Patients with unstable or uncontrolled neuropsychiatric disease
- Patients with a history of epileptic seizures
- Patients with unexplained episodes of loss of consciousness, as this condition may be linked to cerebral alterations or epilepsy
- Patients with advanced or decompensated somatic pathology, requiring hospitalization expected during study follow-up
- Patients suffering from any serious life-threatening illness, such as congestive heart failure, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease or active neoplasia
- Patients with implanted cerebral medical devices, implanted pacemakers, or any electrically, magnetically or mechanically activated implant.
- Patients with cardiac, neural or drug implants
- Patients with vascular clips or other electrically sensitive support systems in the brain
- Patients with severe brain lesions
- Patients with skin lesions at stimulation sites
- Patients with skin problems such as dermatitis, psoriasis or eczema
- Patients with severe or frequent headaches
- Patients who have already benefited from tDCS sessions
- Pregnant, parturient or breast-feeding women (pregnancy test)
- Staff working in the addictology department of Dijon University Hospital
- Patient participating in another clinical trial
- Patient not affiliated to national health insurance
- Patient unable to complete assessment scales
- Patient under psychiatric care without consent or under legal protection (guardianship, curatorship)
- Major incapable or unable to provide consent
Study Plan
How is the study designed?
Design Details
- Primary Purpose: Treatment
- Allocation: Randomized
- Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
- Masking: Double
Arms and Interventions
Participant Group / Arm |
Intervention / Treatment |
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Placebo Comparator: Sham tDCS
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Assessment of risk behaviours (retrospective exploration by the categorical rating of frequency: At least once a day - Several times a week several times a week - once a week - several times a month - once a month - less than once a month - never).
times a month - Once a month - Less than once a month - Never)
EVA craving index for chemsex Maximum VAS craving in the week preceding assessment for chemsex, sexual practices and use of psychoactive substances, HAqII, CSBD-19, modified CCQ-brief, SDI, BDI-II
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Experimental: tDCS active
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Assessment of risk behaviours (retrospective exploration by the categorical rating of frequency: At least once a day - Several times a week several times a week - once a week - several times a month - once a month - less than once a month - never).
times a month - Once a month - Less than once a month - Never)
EVA craving index for chemsex Maximum VAS craving in the week preceding assessment for chemsex, sexual practices and use of psychoactive substances, HAqII, CSBD-19, modified CCQ-brief, SDI, BDI-II
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What is the study measuring?
Primary Outcome Measures
Outcome Measure |
Time Frame |
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Assessment of cue-induced craving for chemsex using a visual analogue scale
Time Frame: 4 weeks from end of stimulation (S5)
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4 weeks from end of stimulation (S5)
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Collaborators and Investigators
Study record dates
Study Major Dates
Study Start (Estimated)
Primary Completion (Estimated)
Study Completion (Estimated)
Study Registration Dates
First Submitted
First Submitted That Met QC Criteria
First Posted (Actual)
Study Record Updates
Last Update Posted (Actual)
Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria
Last Verified
More Information
Terms related to this study
Other Study ID Numbers
- PETIT AOI 2021
Drug and device information, study documents
Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product
Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product
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