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CompletedNCT03447353Updated Sep 27, 2018Results posted

Opiates and Benzodiazepines on Driving

A Phase 4 interventional study of Xanax 1Mg Tablet and Norco 10Mg-325Mg Tablet in Driving Behavior, sponsored by Timothy L. Brown. Completed at 1 site in United States. Open to participants aged 18 Years to 40 Years, including healthy volunteers. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2018-09-27.

Sponsored by Timothy L. Brown · Phase 4, Interventional, and Basic science

From the registry’s dates

  • Registered 1 year 7 months after the study started (first participant enrolled Jun 2016, registered Feb 2018).
Phase
Phase 4
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
18
Allocation
Randomized
Ages
18 Years to 40 Years
Sex
All
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Study summary

The aim of this research is to assess drug effects (Xanax and Norco) on driving performance. Researchers will use the Alertness Memory Profiler (AMP) application to compare results to previous related studies.

This study continues a line of research designed to characterize the effects of common recreationally used prescription and illicit drugs with well known stimulant and sedating effects and their relationship to results from the Alertness Memory Profiler (AMP) that included a set of vigilance and memory tasks.

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This study uses EEG, EKG, computerized assessment, blood sampling, and driving simulation.

Individuals recruited will be normal, healthy individuals not currently taking the study drugs. The study will involve five visits, a screening visit as well as four dosing visits. The dosing visits will have a clean (double placebo) and three drugged visits (Xanax and Norco placebo, Xanax placebo and Norco, Xanax and Norco). The screening visit will last about two hours and will include drug and pregnancy testing as well as screening for physical/psychological health. Each of the dosing visits will last approximately five to six hours and will include sleep and food intake surveys, being dosed with study drugs or placebos, AMP assessments, a simulator drive, and wellness surveys. There will also be 4 mL blood sampling before dosing, before driving, and after driving.

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Conditions studied

  • Driving Behavior

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Keywords

  • driving
  • Xanax
  • Norco
  • simulation
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In context

Behavior

1,573 studies on the registry are indexed under Behavior; 313 are open to participants now.

This study's enrollment of 18 is below the median of 120 across 1,197 interventional studies indexed under Behavior.

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Lead sponsor

Timothy L. Brown is the lead sponsor of 2 studies on the registry; none are open to participants now.

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Who can participate

Ages eligible
18 Years to 40 Years
Sexes eligible
All
Accepts healthy volunteers
Yes

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Inclusion criteria

  • Healthy adult men and women, based on medical and psychological evaluation
  • Currently valid unrestricted (except for vision correction) US driver's license
  • Licensed driver for at least the past two years
  • Drove at least 5000 miles in the past year, by self-report
  • Live within a 60 mile radius of NADS
  • Available for five study sessions, with one being approximately 2 hours and four being approximately 5-6 hours
  • Peripheral veins suitable for repeated venipuncture
  • Systolic blood pressure within a clinically normal range (120 ± 30 mmHg) and diastolic blood pressure of 80 ± 20 mmHg
  • Good command of written and spoken English
  • Female subjects with must agree to use (and/or have their partner use) one (1) acceptable method of beginning at the screening visit throughout the study (including intervals between treatment periods/panels) and until 2 weeks after the last dose of study drug in the last treatment period. Acceptable methods of birth control include the following: intrauterine device (IUD-with or without local hormone release), diaphragm, spermicides, cervical cap, contraceptive sponge, oral contraceptives or condoms. Abstinence is an alternative lifestyle and subjects practicing abstinence may be included in the study.

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Requires any special equipment to help drive, such as pedal extensions, hand brake or throttle, spinner wheel knobs, or other non-standard equipment
  • Presence of any illness, as detected by history, physical examination, and/or laboratory tests, that might influence driving performance (e.g., seizures, sleep apnea, narcolepsy, vertigo, chronic fatigue syndrome) or put the subject at increased risk of adverse events (e.g., cardiac arrhythmia, hypertension)
  • If female, pregnant or nursing
  • Currently taking drugs that are for use with study drugs
  • Significant history of motion sickness or demonstrates significant simulator sickness during practice drives at screening (SSQ). Subjects must have scores below the following values on the SSQ: Nausea \< 21, Oculomotor \<32, Disorientation \< 15, and Total Score \< 32.
  • History of any illness that, in the opinion of the study investigator, might confound the results of the study or pose an additional risk to the subject from study participation
  • Prior participation in a driver impairment or distraction-related research study conducted at NADS that uses the same base drive
Terms in these criteria, in plain language(4)

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Reproductive potential

Able to have children. For women this usually means from the first period until menopause, unless permanently unable to through surgery; for men, unless permanently sterile. Read who the line is about — participants, women, men, or their partners.

Criteria about it usually ask for contraception during the study and for a time after it.

Contraception

Ways of preventing pregnancy. “Highly effective” methods fail less than 1% of the time a year when used correctly — for example an IUD or an implant.

Criteria usually say which methods count and how long to keep using them after the last dose, sometimes for male participants too. Some studies accept a partner’s vasectomy if it was confirmed successful and that person is the participant’s only sexual partner.

Clinically significant

Judged by the study doctor to matter for your health or for the study. It is a doctor’s decision, so ask the study team if you are unsure whether something counts.

Contraindication

A reason a treatment, test or procedure should not be given to a particular person, such as an allergy, another illness or a medicine they take.

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Study design

Phase
Phase 4
Primary purpose
Basic science
Allocation
Randomized
Intervention model
Parallel assignment
Masking
Triple (Participant, Investigator, Outcomes assessor)
Enrollment
18 participants (actual)

Study arms

  • Experimental
    "Sober" or Double Placebo

    Subject receives two tablets, both containing placebo

    Drug: Placebo Oral Tablet

  • Experimental
    Active Xanax, Active Norco

    Subject receives two tablets, one containing Xanax and one containing Norco

    Drug: Xanax 1Mg Tablet · Drug: Norco 10Mg-325Mg Tablet

  • Experimental
    Active Xanax, Placebo Norco

    Subject receives two tablets, one containing Xanax and one containing placebo

    Drug: Xanax 1Mg Tablet · Drug: Placebo Oral Tablet

  • Experimental
    Placebo Xanax, Active Norco

    Subject receives two tablets, one containing Norco and one containing placebo

    Drug: Norco 10Mg-325Mg Tablet · Drug: Placebo Oral Tablet

Interventions

  • Single dose on two of four visits, one in conjunction with 1 tab of 10mg/325mg Norco

    Also known as: Alprazolam

  • DrugNorco 10Mg-325Mg Tablet

    Single dose on two of the four study visits, one in conjunction with 1mg alprazolam

    Also known as: hydrocodone/acetaminophen

  • DrugPlacebo Oral Tablet

    Single dose on two of the four study visits, double dose on one of the four study visits

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. SDLP

    Standard Deviation of Lane Position Standard deviation of lane position was analyzed using the SAS GLM function to identify changes in driver performance. Values represents means across the driving environments studied.

    Time frame: over course of each simulator drive, approximately 35 minutes per visit

Secondary outcomes

  1. Lane Departures

    Total number of lane departures per drive The total number of lane departures across the drive were analyzed using the SAS GLM procedure.

    Time frame: over course of each simulator drive, approximately 35 minutes per visit

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Results

Posted Sep 27, 2018

Participant flow

Participant flow — Overall Study
MilestoneOverall Study
Started18
Completed8
Not completed10
Withdrew: Failure at screening visit2
Withdrew: Lost to follow-up4
Withdrew: Scheduling conflicts3
Withdrew: Withdrew - nausea study v1, sim drive1

Outcome measures

PrimarySDLP

Standard Deviation of Lane Position Standard deviation of lane position was analyzed using the SAS GLM function to identify changes in driver performance. Values represents means across the driving environments studied.

Time frame:
over course of each simulator drive, approximately 35 minutes per visit
Reported as:
Mean · centimeters
SDLP
centimeters"Sober" or Double PlaceboActive Xanax, Active NorcoActive Xanax, Placebo NorcoPlacebo Xanax, Active Norco
SDLP35.2 ± 11.149.8 ± 21.050.0 ± 25.333.5 ± 9.5
SecondaryLane Departures

Total number of lane departures per drive The total number of lane departures across the drive were analyzed using the SAS GLM procedure.

Time frame:
over course of each simulator drive, approximately 35 minutes per visit
Reported as:
Mean · count
Lane Departures
count"Sober" or Double PlaceboActive Xanax, Active NorcoActive Xanax, Placebo NorcoPlacebo Xanax, Active Norco
Lane Departures23.8 ± 9.072.0 ± 38.264.4 ± 29.422.3 ± 9.5

Adverse events

Non-serious events are listed at a 0% frequency threshold.

Adverse event summary by group
GroupDeathsSeriousOther
"Sober" or Double Placebo0/8 (0%)0/8 (0%)0/8 (0%)
Active Xanax, Active Norco0/8 (0%)0/8 (0%)0/8 (0%)
Active Xanax, Placebo Norco0/8 (0%)0/8 (0%)0/8 (0%)
Placebo Xanax, Active Norco0/8 (0%)0/8 (0%)0/8 (0%)

Baseline characteristics

Age, Categorical
Age, Categorical(Participants)All Study Participants
<=18 years0
Between 18 and 65 years8
>=65 years0
Sex: Female, Male
Sex: Female, Male(Participants)All Study Participants
Female4
Male4
Ethnicity (NIH/OMB)
Ethnicity (NIH/OMB)(Participants)All Study Participants
Hispanic or Latino0
Not Hispanic or Latino8
Unknown or Not Reported0
Race (NIH/OMB)
Race (NIH/OMB)(Participants)All Study Participants
American Indian or Alaska Native0
Asian0
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander0
Black or African American2
White6
More than one race0
Unknown or Not Reported0
Region of Enrollment
Region of Enrollment(participants)All Study Participants
United States8
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Study locations

1 site
  • National Advanced Driving Simulator
    Iowa City, Iowa 52242, United States
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Updates

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
No changes since tracking began. The registry record was last updated on Sep 27, 2018, before this site started recording changes on Sep 25, 2026. Its history is on ClinicalTrials.gov ↗
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Registry details

Key details

Study ID
NCT03447353
Lead sponsor
Timothy L. Brown
Responsible party
Timothy L. Brown (Associate Research Scientist/Engineer, University of Iowa) — Sponsor-investigator
First posted
Feb 27, 2018
Start date
Jun 14, 2016
Primary completion
Oct 25, 2016
Completion
Oct 25, 2016
Results posted
Sep 27, 2018
Last update
Sep 27, 2018

Study contacts

Timothy L Brown, Ph.D.
principal investigator · National Advanced Driving Simulator at the University of Iowa

Oversight

Data monitoring committee
No
FDA-regulated drug
Yes
FDA-regulated device
No
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