A Patient Has Been on Opioids for 3 Months After

question 35

Multiple Choice

A patient has been on opioids for 3 months after receiving multiple injuries in a car accident. The patient now asks about the risk of withdrawal symptoms when the drugs are no longer needed. What is the nurse's most appropriate response?

• A)"You were using the drugs for legitimate pain, so you will not have to go through withdrawal when you stop them."
• B)"Ask your doctor for a sedative to get you through the worst of the withdrawal symptoms."
• C)"As long as you taper the drug dose down slowly, you should not experience withdrawal symptoms."
• D)"You would have to be on these drugs much longer than 3 months to have problems with withdrawal."

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