The mission of the Clinical Trials Network (CTN) is to improve the quality of drug abuse treatment throughout the country using science as the vehicle.

Overview

The CTN provides an enterprise in which the National Institute on Drug Abuse, treatment researchers, and community-based service providers cooperatively develop, validate, refine, and deliver new treatment options to patients in community-level clinical practice.

Objectives

The unique partnership between community treatment providers and academic research leaders aims to achieve the following objectives:

Southern Consortium Node

• 10 research CTPs in North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia
• 25 treatment centers in South Carolina, Georgia and Mississippi

The consortium was formed to help facilitate promulgation of CTN findings and provide a larger pool of potential CTN research sites. The CTPs of the Southern Consortium provide services to adults and adolescents in both rural and urban areas and represent a wide range of treatment settings and modalities including 12-step, family therapy, medication management, inpatient detoxification, drug court, narcotic replacement therapy, and cognitive behavioral therapy.