The results from Project MATCH generated a great deal of commentary and curiosity from scientists in the alcohol and addictions fields. MATCH-related commentary, journal articles and summaries & reviews, as well as research resulting from use of the Project MATCH Public Data Set is compiled on this web page.

Please note that his list may be incomplete, and continues to be updated. If you would like an article or link to be included, please email your comments to Janice Vendetti.

Commentary

Project MATCH: unseen colossus. By Mike Ashton. Drug and Alcohol Findings, issue1, 1999. (PDF 109 kb)

Project MATCH's value lies more in its unanticipated findings than in what it set out so painstakingly to prove - less in matching treatment technologies to patient variables, more in the human touch and doing whatever you do well.

Comments on Project MATCH: matching alcohol treatments to client heterogeneity. (1999). Addiction, 94 (1), 31-69. (PDF 537 kb)

This collection of comments features an introduction by the Project MATCH Research Group, 14 commentaries by leading authorities in the field of treatment research followed by a response to those comments by the Group.

Journal Articles

Currently being compiled

Summaries & Reviews

The results of the Project MATCH main findings are published in the Journal of Studies on Alcohol. A December 1996 NIAAA press release describes the findings.

Patient-Treatment Matching. Alcohol Alert, No. 36, April 1997. Click here to view article.

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