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The nurse is presenting a substance-abuse lecture for teenage girls and is asked about roofies. The nurse recognizes that this is the slang term for which substance?
 
  a. Cocaine
  b. Flunitrazepam
  c. Secobarbital
  d. Methamphetamine

Question 2

A patient has been taking naltrexone (ReVia)
 
  as part of the treatment for addiction to heroin. The nurse expects that the naltrexone will have which therapeutic effect for this patient?
  a. Naltrexone prevents the cravings for opioid drugs.
  b. Naltrexone works as a safer substitute for the heroin until the patient completes withdrawal.
  c. The patient will experience flushing, sweating, and severe nausea if he takes heroin while on naltrexone.
  d. If opioid drugs are used while taking naltrexone, euphoria is not produced; thus, the opioid's desired effects are lost.



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Answer to Question 1

ANS: B

Answer to Question 2

ANS: D



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Both answers were spot on, thank you once again



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