Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Foundations of drug and alcohol counseling -- Drugs in society and addiction -- Fundamental components of drug counseling -- Transactional analysis and the theory of addiction -- Why people use drugs and their treatment -- Specific techniques in counseling the drug and alcohol user -- The harm reduction contract and harm reduction counseling -- Assessment of the drug and alcohol user -- Drug use ambivalence -- Relapse process work -- Motivational interviewing -- The teenage drug user -- Epilogue -- References -- Further reading -- Index.