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BMC Public Health BioMed Central Correspondence Open Access Are Alcoholism Treatments Effective? The Project MATCH Data: Response William R Miller* 1,2 Address: 1Department of Psychology MSC03 2220, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA 87131-0001 and 2Center on Alcoholism, Substance Abuse, and Addictions (CASAA), University of New Mexico, 2650 Yale Blvd. SE, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA 87106 Email: William R Miller* - WRMiller@ * Corresponding author Published: 18 July 2005 Received: 15 July 2005 Accepted: 18 July 2005 BMC Public Health 2005, 5:76 doi:10.1186/1471-2458-5-76 This article is available from: /1471-2458/5/76 © 2005 Miller; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract A response to Cutler RB, Fishbain, DA: Are alcoholism treatments effective? The Project MATCH data BMC Public Health 2005, 5:75. Text thereby explaining why the results of the MATCH clinical Oh what a tangled web they wove! Cutler and Fishbain [1] trial were disappointing. re-analyzed Project MATCH data to challenge a funda- mental belief of addiction treatment that therapy is effec- Disappointing Findings? tive. They noted that patients who dropped out before Disappointment with study findings, of course, de