A nurse is teaching a drug prevention class to a group of parents of adolescents. Which statement by a parent indicates understanding of the teaching?
a. "Compared with alcohol, marijuana has little or no long-term adverse effects."
b. "Ecstasy causes reversible damage to se-rotonergic neurons."
c. "LSD does not cause an abstinence syn-drome when it is withdrawn."
d. "Most individuals who abuse opioids be-gan using them therapeutically."
C
Although tolerance to LSD develops rapidly, there is no abstinence syndrome with abrupt with-drawal of the drug, and tolerance fades rapidly. Many adverse behavioral, subjective, and long-term effects are associated with chronic use of marijuana. MDMA [Ecstasy] can cause ir-reversible damage to serotonergic neurons. Most people who go on to abuse opioids begin their drug use illicitly; only an exceedingly small percentage of those exposed to opioids therapeuti-cally go on to abuse these drugs.
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