The Principal Investigator of the current study, Dr. Jim McKay, and his colleagues at the Center of Continuum of Care in the Addictions have also developed a telephone-based approach to continuing care, Telephone Monitoring and Counseling (TMC), which has demonstrated efficacy in two randomized trials with alcohol-dependent patients. The TMC intervention is delivered through telephone contacts between patients and counselors, and makes use of information obtained in a brief assessment at the beginning of each call to determine the content of the session and to trigger adaptive changes in level of care over time.