You are responding to a drug-related emergency. While you are en route to the scene, the dispatcher informs you that the patient has overdosed on an unspecified narcotic. Which of these statements made by your partner indicates an understanding of overdoses with narcotic drugs?
A) "We will have to be careful because narcotic overdoses can cause hallucinations, and the patient may be violent."
B) "When performing the primary assessment, we need to be alert for respiratory depression and have the naloxone ready."
C) "If the patient is conscious, we will have to ask about chest pain since narcotics can increase the heart's workload."
D) "We need to look at the pupils. If they are constricted, the patient has most likely taken a narcotic and we will have to administer naloxone intravenously."
B) "When performing the primary assessment, we need to be alert for respiratory depression and have the naloxone ready."
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