This guide equips clinicians with practical guidance to address the needs of men in recovery. It addresses screening and assessment, treatment issues, working with specific populations of men, and male-appropriate treatment modalities and settings.

This manual guides counselors in the use of medications to help clients achieve abstinence from alcohol. It describes how the medications work and whom may benefit. It also presents the side effects of three FDA-approved medications: acamprosate, disulfiram, and naltrexone.