After surgery, a patient expresses to the nurse the fear of becoming addicted to the opioid analgesic that has been prescribed for pain. What is the nurse's best response?
a. "Opioid-based drugs are not addictive."
b. "Have you or anyone in your family ever been addicted to drugs?"
c. "When opioid drugs are taken for acute pain, they are rarely addictive."
d. "If you take the medication no more frequently than every 4 hours, it is not poss-ible for you to become addicted."
C
Pain after surgery is acute and temporary pain. The use of opioid drugs, when used for relief of acute pain, even in high doses, rarely results in addiction.
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