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

Commentary

Project MATCH: unseen colossus. By Mike Ashton. Drug and Alcohol Findings, issue1, 1999.

• 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.

• 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.

Summaries & Reviews

The results of the Project MATCH main findings are published in the Journal of Studies on Alcohol.

Patient-Treatment Matching. Alcohol Alert, No. 36, April 1997.