Clinical trialNCT05169281CompletedInterventional

Distribution of Medication Disposal Packets - Acute Opioid Prescribing

SponsorUniversity of PennsylvaniaEnrollment657NeurosurgeryOpioid MisuseOpioid UseOrthopedic SurgerySurgery

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Summary

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Many prescription opioids following surgery are left unused and are at risk of being misused or diverted. Encouraging proper disposal is important, yet motivating this behavior remains challenging as patients must understand the risks of opioids, the benefits of disposal, and identify opportunities and places to dispose of them safely. Alternative disposal techniques can improve disposal rates but may be lost or forgotten. Applying behavioral economics techniques may lower the barriers and promote disposal. The objective is to test the effect of a specifically timed, mailed, at-home kit on disposal rates following surgery.

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Investigators

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Anish Agarwal, MD
University of Pennsylvania
Principal Investigator
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Daniel Lee, MD
University of Pennsylvania
Principal Investigator
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Zarina Ali, MD
University of Pennsylvania
Principal Investigator
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Sites

1 registered facility, with the per-site recruitment status where the registry publishes one. ClinicalTrials.gov does not publish per-site enrollment counts.

United States

University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

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Drugs studied

No drug or biological interventions are in our data for this study. It may test a procedure, device or behavioral intervention, or the intervention list isn't in our current snapshot. See the registry record ↗. Why? →

Registration & key dates

Registry attributes as recorded on the ClinicalTrials.gov study record.

Start: 24 Mar 2021
Primary completion: 28 Apr 2021
Completion: 26 May 2021
Last update posted: 2 Jun 2023
Registered enrollment: 657
Registry id: NCT05169281

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Source: ClinicalTrials.gov, via the CTTI AACT database, data as of 24 Aug 2026. Registry facts are shown as registered by the study sponsor; FindMyKOL does not interpret them.