People in opioid maintenance treatment may have an impaired capacity for emotion perception and ability to make inferences about social situations.

Addiction. 2012 Nov 16. doi: 10.1111/add.12040. [Epub ahead of print]

Deficits in social perception in opioid maintenance patients, abstinent opioid users and non-opioid users.

McDonald S, Darke S, Kaye S, Torok M.

School of Psychology, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, 2052, Australia.