Table 1.

CTN Special Interest Groups—Where Science and Practice Blend

Tasks
Discuss the unmet needs of treatment	Serve as expert resources
Generate snapshots of current practice	Develop research concepts
Review empirically supported literature	Strategize long-range research plans
Identify, assess and develop special research tools

Groups (2000-now)
HIV/AIDS	Smoking
Common assessment battery	Homelessness
Design and analysis	Spirituality
Adolescent	Eating disorder
Women and gender	Pain
Co-morbidity	Alcohol treatment
Court-involved patients	Genetics
Ethnic minority	Treatment algorithm
Behavioral therapy	Health services research
Pharmacotherapy (including Buprenorphine)	Residential treatment
Treatment matching	Cost analysis