Students need not be division members to receive the listserv. Buchman moderates discussions, including some on chemical dependency and monitors discussions for quality assurance. Eric Griffin-Shelley, PhD, and his colleagues are examining Internet problems, such as how online infidelity affects marital relationships. He has also completed work on computers, the Internet and sex addiction, to be presented at the 2000 National Conference of the National Council on Sexual Addiction and Compulsivity. In classes such as substance-abuse therapies, students participate in online discussions and assignments.
Some assignments take students into their communities for outreach and research.
Piotrowski's virtual classroom consists of students from the United States and abroad, allowing for discussions of cultural and other regional differences important to addictive behavior.