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Controlled Trial of Brexpiprazole For The Treatment of Co-occurring Schizophrenia and Substance Use Disorder

NCT03526354

RandomizedParallel-groupOpen-labelTreatment

Summary

The proposed study is a 4-site, 12-week, novel, feasibility, investigation of patients who have co-occurring diagnoses of schizophrenia and current substance use disorder (alcohol, cocaine, heroin, or cannabis). Thirty-nine participants will be randomly assigned to switch to brexpiprazole (the brexpiprazole group) or remain on the same antipsychotic treatment (the control group). The study will be conducted at 4 sites in the US. The investigators expect to enroll 80 subjects across 3 sites. UMass Medical School, Worcester MA is the lead site. Sub-sites include Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC).

Timeline

Start
2018-06-19
Primary completion
2024-02-29
Completion
2024-02-29

Drugs

EvaluationDrugModalityDoseRoute
Subject Brexpiprazole Small molecule 4 mg