Developing a Smartphone Application to Support Veteran Opioid Use Disorder Treatment

During Phase 3 (Stage 1b RCT), the treatment condition will employ ACT to RECOVER. ACT to RECOVER will be a smartphone app designed to act as a flexible, semi-structured, user-friendly adjunct to standard medication treatment for opioid use disorder. Content will include components appropriate for either self-management and/or use with providers. ACT to RECOVER will be designed to have major ACT-focused modules completable within 1 month.

During Phase 3 (Stage 1b RCT), the control condition will employ a smartphone-based symptom monitoring program in an effort to provide a balanced alternative to the treatment condition with respect to attention, time using a mobile application, and nonspecific intervention effects. This condition will not, however, include any content or components from the Prototype Digital Intervention hypothesized to produce active clinical effects.