A client is scheduled for surgery, and an antihistamine and narcotic have been prescribed as preoperative drugs. The antihistamine increases the effect of the narcotic. This is an example of which drug effect?
a. Additive
b. Potentiation
c. Opposing
d. Antagonistic
ANS: B
Potentiating drugs include those with different actions that when given together increase the function of one another.
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