I. The Organization of Service Delivery -- -- Organiztional and financial issues in the delivery of substance abuse treatment services / Constance M. Horgan [and others] -- The organiztion of substance abuse managed care / Michael R. Sosin and Thomas D'Aunno -- Effects of managed care on programs and practices for the treatment of alcohol and drug dependence / Shelley Steenrod [and others] -- Linking clients to clinical and social services / Michael Calloway [and others] -- -- II. Access to Alcohol Treatment in the 21st Century : Old Worries and New Optimism -- -- Rethinking access to alcohol treatment / Constance Weisner and Laura A. Schmidt -- Access to services in the substance abuse treatment system : variations by facility characteristics / Margaret T. Lee [and others] -- Patient placement criteria and their relations to access to appropriate level of care and engagement in alcoholism treatment / Amy Rubin and David R. Gastfriend -- Access to substance abuse services in rural areas / John Fortney and Brenda M. Booth -- -- III. The Role of Health Economics in Substance Abuse Research : Recent Advances and Future Opportunities -- -- Economic evaluation of alcohol treatment services / Michael T. French -- Financing of substance abuse treatment services / Constance M. Horgan and Elizabeth Levy Merrick -- Using cost and financing instruments for economic evaluation of substance abuse treatment services / Helena J. Salomé and Michael T. French -- Alcoholism treatment in manged private sector plans : how are carve-out arrangements affecting costs and utilization? / Roland Sturm [and others] -- Problem drinking, health services utilization, and the cost of medical care / Pierre Kébreau Alexandre [and others] -- -- IV. The Outcome of Treatment -- -- Outcomes of alcohol treatment for adolescents / Sandra A. Brown and Elizabeth J. D'Amico -- Family-involved alcoholism treatment : an update / Timothy J. O'Farrell and William Fals-Stewart -- The role of continuing care in outpatient alcohol treatment programs / James R. McKay -- A comparative, process-effectiveness evaluation of VA substance abuse treatment / John W. Finney [and others] -- Screening and brief interventions for alcohol use disorders in manged care settings / Michael F. Fleming and Allan W. Graham -- -- V. Report of the American Society of Addiction Medicine -- -- The impact of managed care on substance abuse treatment : a problem in need of solution : a report of the American Society of Addiction Medicine / Marc Galanter [and others].