Overview of treatment
Goals of treatment / Marc A. Schuckit
Typologies of addiction / Michael J. Bohn, Roger E. Meyer
Assessment of the patient / Richard Steven Schottenfeld
Outcome research: alcoholism / Reid K. Hester
Outcome research: drug abuse / Dean R. Gerstein
Treatment of patients for specific drugs of abuse
Alcohol / Don Gallant
Cannabis / Robert B. Millman, Ann Bordwine Beeder
Stimulants / Frank H. Gawin, M. Elena Khalsa, Everett Ellinwood, Jr.
Hallucinogens / J. Thomas Ungerleider, Robert N. Pechnick.

Phencyclidine / Amin N. Daghestani, Sidney H. Schnoll
Tobacco / Judith K. Ockene, Jean L. Kristeller
Benzodiazepines and other sedative-hypnotics / David E. Smith, Donald R. Wesson
Opioids: detoxification / Herbert D. Kleber
Opioids: methadone maintenance / Edward C. Senay
Opioids: antagonists and partial agonists / Charles P. O'Brien
Treatment modalities
Individual treatment
Psychodynamics / Richard Frances, John Franklin, Lisa Borg
Network therapy for the office practitioner / Marc Galanter.

Individual psychotherapy: alcohol / Sheldon Zimberg
Individual psychotherapy: other drugs / George E. Woody, Delinda Mercer, Lester Luborsky
Relapse prevention / G. Alan Marlatt, Kimberly Barrett
Group and family therapy
Group therapy / Sarah J. Golden, Edward J. Khantzian, William E. McAuliffe
Family therapy: alcohol / Peter Steinglass
Family therapy: other drugs / Edward Kaufman
Special programs
Alcoholics anonymous and other 12-step groups / Chad D. Emrick
Inpatient treatment / Roger D. Weiss
Employee assistance programs / Paul M. Roman, Terry C. Blum.

Community-based treatment / James H. Shore
Therapeutic communities / George De Leon
Adolescent substance abuse / Yifrah Kaminer
Diagnostic criteria for substance-related disorders from DSM-IV.