Deficits in behavioural inhibition in substance abuse and addiction: A meta-analysis

Deficits in behavioural inhibitory control are attracting increasing attention as a factor behind the development and maintenance of substance dependence. However, evidence for such a deficit is varied in the literature. Here, we synthesised published results to determine whether inhibitory ability is reliably impaired in substance users compared to controls.The meta-analysis used fixed-effects models to integrate results from 97 studies that...