Fighting Addictions, Improving Lives: COmprehensive Drug Rehabilitation With Music

Condition(s) studied

Investigational drug(s) / intervention(s)

Active Music Group (AMG): Active music group is a music therapy intervention where participants actively make/play music in groups. The sessions will be conducted by an appropriately qualified music therapist.

Music Listening Group (MLG): Music listening group is a music therapy intervention where participants partake in music listening in groups. The sessions will be conducted by an appropriately qualified music therapist.

Treatment as Usual (TAU): Treatment as usual as provided locally, which may include pharmacological and/or non-pharmacological interventions (e.g. mindfulness-based intervention, structured physical activity).

Study summary

FALCO is a parallel pragmatic randomized control trial addressing long-term effects of music therapy (MT) on substance use disorder (SUD).

600 participants will be recruited from multiple European countries (see Locations). They will be randomized into one of the following intervention arms: Active Music Group (AMG), Music Listening Group (MLG) or Treatment as Usual (TAU) as offered locally.

Eligibility

Primary outcome measure(s)

• Addiction Severity assessed by the the European Addiction Severity Index (EuropASI) — Baseline, 1 year, 2 years.
  The survey covers a broad concept of addiction, including changes that typically require a long time, across seven domains (general medical condition, professional and financial situation, substance use, other drug consumption, legal problems, family and social relations, psychological condition). It has been adapted specifically for use in European contexts. The scale is clinician-based and includes 164 items, with a fine-grained Composite score of 0 (best) to 1 (worst).

Trial sites (11)