CapOpus

CapOpus is the name of a Randomized controlled trial (RCT) running in Denmark at Bispebjerg Hospital in Copenhagen. Expected to start including patients in June 2007, it is an intervention aimed at reducing cannabis consumption in young persons with comorbid schizophrenia and cannabis dependency. It is run by psychiatrist Merete Nordentoft, MD, PhD.

The aim of the RCT is to compare an approach using motivational interviewing and the stages of change model compared with standard treatment. Among the trial's funders are the Lundbeck foundation, the Municipality of Copenhagen, and Sygekassernes Helsefond.

The trial is, along with the English MIDAS Trial, among the only trials aimed at this particular group of comorbid substance abusers with schizophrenia.