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Methadone: early-phase trial registry

2 of 3 indexed Methadone trials are currently recruiting, with more weight in Phase 1-2.

Corpus placement: #5,209 of 28,707 conditions by registered trial count.

3 US clinical trials · 2 currently recruiting · #5,209 of 28,707 conditions by registered trial count

Methadone: 3 US clinical trials tracked, 2 recruiting.

Methadone is the subject of 3 registered US clinical trials on ClinicalTrials.gov, 2 of them currently open to new participants. 0 are in Phase 3-4 (later-stage) and 2 in Phase 1-2 (earlier-stage). The most active sponsor is Johns Hopkins University, running 1 of these trials.

Enrollment posture brief

Registry condition methadone

OPEN 2 | RECR 67% | LATE 0 | EARLY 2 | RANK #5209 | SPON 1

Nearest open-share peer: Acute Hypoxemic Respiratory Failure (67% recruiting · 6 trials)

Ablation80%ACL Reconstruction80%Methadone (this)67%Abuse, Drug60%Acceptability60%
Open-enrollment share among volume-matched conditions near Methadone

Methadone lists 2 open slots (67% of 3 indexed trials). Peers are matched on registered volume, not therapeutic-area browse lists. How peer matching works →

Key findings

What ClinicalTrials.gov does not surface for Methadone on its own pages , computed from the registry mirror as of 2026-08-08. Each line carries its own denominator so it can be quoted as it stands.

  1. Methadone is recruiting above its size-band peers.

    2 of 3 indexed trials (66.7%) are open to enrollment, against a 46.5% average across 27,806 conditions with fewer than 20 trials. The peer set uses the same ClinicalTrials.gov-derived counts as this page.

Phase 22

Phase Distribution

PhaseTrial count
Phase 2 2

Named interventions

Most-linked intervention names on Methadone records (sponsor-reported on ClinicalTrials.gov). Counts are trial links, not unique products.

stepped-based care Behavioral
1 trials
low threshold care Behavioral
1 trials
Methadone (50% dose) Drug
1 trials
Methadone (100% dose) Drug
1 trials
XR-Naltrexone Drug
1 trials
Buprenorphine/naloxone Drug
1 trials
Methadone Drug
1 trials

US sites by state

Facility locations filed on Methadone trials. A trial with sites in several states counts in each.

Maryland 2 trials
Pennsylvania 1 trials

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov, National Library of Medicine. Data is informational only.

What to do with this Methadone page

3 registered trials, 2 currently recruiting, is a starting point for a conversation, not a diagnosis or a recommendation.

Trial and recruiting counts reflect ClinicalTrials.gov registry status as of the data vintage above; individual trial eligibility and enrollment status can change.

Every figure on PlainTrial is rendered directly from the ClinicalTrials.gov registry, no number is typed in by an editor. This Methadone condition card totals 3 registered trials; most-linked intervention stepped-based care; top US site state Maryland. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, the data changelog, or report a data error.