“…= pharmacological; CI = confi dence interval. a The trimmed estimate with three outlying (Kelly et al, 2000;O'Malley et al, 1992;Sandahl et al, 2004) and two high weight (Anton et al, 2006;Project MATCH, 1997) trials removed was larger, signifi cant, and homogeneous (g = 0.14, p < .05, Q > .05); b the estimate with one high-weight study (MTRP, 2004) removed was 0.38 (p < .005, Q > .05); c the trimmed estimate with two outlying trials (Carroll et al, 1991;Rawson et al, 2006) removed was slightly larger but remained heterogeneous (g = 0.19, p < .05, Q < .05); d the trimmed estimate with one outlying trial (Sandahl et al, 2004) removed was slightly higher (g = 0.18, p < .005, Q < .05) but remained heterogeneous; e the trimmed estimate with two outlying studies (Kelly et al, 2001;MTRP, 2004) removed was lower and homogeneous (g = 0.20, p < .005, Q > .05); f the trimmed estimate with one outlying study (Heinälä et al, 2001) removed was slightly lower (g = 0.19, p < .05, Q > .05); Anton et al (2006) not included in analyses because it qualifi es as both a psychosocial and pharmacological combined intervention; g positive effect comparisons include interpersonal psychotherapy (Carroll et al, 1991(Carroll et al, , 2004Donovan and Ito, 1988), twelve-step facilitation (Brown et al, 2002;Maude-Griffi n et al, 1998), motivational interviewing (Anton et al, 2005;Stephens et al, 2000), and contingency management (Budney et al, 2006); h the trimmed estimate with one outlying trial (Rawson et al, 2006) removed was larger, signifi cant but remained heterogeneous (g = 0.22, p < .05, Q < .05). *p < .05; § p < .005. or similar no-treatment control.…”