If you have significant contact with a person involved in a twelve-step program, Understanding Twelve-Step Programs is for you. This book may also be useful if you have been told you could benefit from a twelve-step program, but you have yet to get involved in a group or if you are still new to twelve-step programs. This is not a clinical book; rather, author Bruce Brown presents the material as an experienced insider. Its topics include information on:

• what goes on in meetings
• addiction and withdrawal
• how each step works
• sponsorship, spirituality, and anonymity
• how to help addicts
• recovery for friends and family

Understanding Twelve-Step Programs helps to demystify twelve-step programs so that readers will better understand the nature of recovery.