The nurse has administered a scheduled dose of an antagonist to a client with mental illness. This drug will achieve a therapeutic effect by:
A) Preventing substances from activating cell function
B) Reducing the client's number of synapses
C) Accelerating the reuptake of neurotransmitters
D) Stabilizing a receptor in an inactive state
Ans: A
Feedback:
Drug antagonists block the actions of everything in the agonist spectrum. These chemicals bind to and block a receptor, producing no response and preventing agonists from binding or attaching to the receptor.
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