Autopsy report · NCT03648840

Human Alcohol Seeking Despite Aversion

“Enrollment paused when our alcohol supplier recalled and suspended manufacture of the product. When production resumed, there was not enough time remaining to successfully resume recruitment. We will examine the outcomes with the existing sample.”

The sponsor’s own words in the registry.

Life of this trial

• Registered 5 months after it had already started.
• Ran for about 4 years 1 month before it stopped.
• 84 participants enrolled.
• Results were posted on the registry 2 years 10 months after it ended.

Vital statistics

Status

Terminated

Phase

Na

Sponsor

Indiana University

Sponsor type

University, hospital or other

Conditions

Alcohol Abuse

Interventions

Aversive Cue; Neutral Cue

Participants

84

Sites

1

Countries

United States

Trials that died the same way

• Sevoflurane in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Exacerbation
  “Study halted prematurely and will not resume; participants are no longer being examined or receiving intervention The study was terminated prematurely due to inclusion difficulties” (64% match in meaning)
• Ultrasound and Endometrial Hyperplasia
  “enrollment of participants has halted prematurely; difficulty with recruitment” (63% match in meaning)
• Lifestyle, Exercise and Diet: The LEAD Study
  “Due to COVID-19, recruitment and enrollment was suspended and never resumed. COVID-related changes have been made to the clinical program which houses our intervention, and we could not compare new participants with our previous cohort.” (62% match in meaning)
• Dynepo Infrequent Dosing Study
  “The termination of the study is not linked to a product recall or result of any safety signal. Rather it was sponsor's commercial decision to withdraw the MA” (61% match in meaning)
• Efficacy and Safety Study of 4975 in Patients Undergoing Total Hip Replacement
  “Enrollment of patients has halted prematurely and will not resume. No future patients will be enrolled or treated.” (61% match in meaning)

Look deeper

• The official registry record (the source of truth)
• Record history: every change the sponsor made
• Open it in the database

Everything here comes from the current ClinicalTrials.gov record. The timeline uses the record’s dates; dates marked planned are the sponsor’s plans. The cause of death is an automatic, unverified label. This is research information, not medical advice.