12.
What effect does morphine have on respiration?
a. Depression.
b. Stimulation.
c.
Increase in muscular tone.
d. Occurrence of rhythmic irregularities.
13.
Which of the following drugs tends to constipate?
a. Aspirin.
b. Diazepam.
c.
Paregoric.
d. Phenobarbital.
14.
A client in a hospital has been receiving moderate doses of a narcotic analgesic
regularly for therapeutic purposes. When the pain for which it has been
administered has ceased and the drug is discontinued, the probable result will be:
a. Postural hypotension.
b. Convulsions.
c.
d. Discomfort, with the cause unknown to the client.
15.
Which of the following does NOT contribute to the tendency of heroin to produce
psychological dependence?
a. Anxieties about sex, aggression, and pain.
b. Feelings of inability to survive emotionally without narcotics.
c.
The need for increasingly large doses to maintain physiological balance.
d. A pleasurable surge immediately after injection.
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