If alcohol were consumed after taking a barbiturate…

a. it would strengthen the barbiturate’s effects.
b. it would cancel the barbiturate’s effects.
c. it would increase the rewarding effects but not the respiratory depressant effects of the barbiturate.
d. there would be no additional effects.


Ans: A

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