In some cases, patients will use drugs or alcohol to treat the disturbing symptoms of a psychiatric disease. What can occur in this scenario?
a. A mixed-drug reaction, which may heigh-ten the effects of both drugs
b. Decreased psychiatric symptoms, which makes the psychiatric condition harder to treat
c. An accidental overdose by mixing alcohol with anxiolytic medications, antipsychotic medications, or antidepressant agents
d. An increase in psychiatric symptoms be-cause the psychiatric drugs become less effective in the presence of alcohol
C
Combining alcohol and psychiatric drugs, anxiolytics, or antidepressants may cause an accidental overdose by increasing the central nervous system effects.
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