Conditions: Alcoholism
Keywords: Alcohol Relapse
Allocation: RANDOMIZED | Intervention model: PARALLEL
Enrollment: 56
Healthy volunteers: no

Brief summary:
The primary hypotheses under test are that alcohol dependent subjects treated with mifepristone will report decreased craving for alcohol following alcohol exposure in the laboratory and report significantly less drinking under naturalistic conditions, than those treated with placebo.

Detailed description:

Arms:
arm 1: 600 mg daily taken orally for one week arm 2: placebo pill daily taken orally for one week

Interventions: intervention 1: Korlym (mifepristone) intervention 2: Sugar Pill
Intervention descriptions: intervention 1: 600 mg/day, oral pill, 7 days intervention 2: 600 mg/day, oral pill, 7 days

Protocol document: