This volume, Substance Abuse: Administrative Issues in Outpatient Treatment, and its companion text, Substance Abuse: Clinical Issues in Intensive Outpatient Treatment, revisit the subject matter of TIP 8, Intensive Outpatient Treatment for Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse, published in 1994 (CSAT 1994). When TIP 8 was published, one slender volume, barely more than 100 pages long, sufficed to cover intensive outpatient treatment (IOT). The same task today requires two volumes, each of which is devoted to a distinct audience (administrators and clinicians) and is longer than the single, original volume. The primary audience for this TIP is administrators of outpatient substance abuse treatment programs. A few words about this audience are in order. Whereas TIP 8 addressed intensive outpatient treatment, the current TIP drops the word "intensive" from its title because the consensus panel hopes that this TIP will find an audience beyond administrators of IOT programs. Most of the concepts and guidelines...