When a patient is admitted after abusing a hallucinogenic substance, the care plan must be altered to include interventions for:
a. dangerously elevated blood pressure.
b. deep coma-like sleep.
c. cardiac arrhythmias.
d. provision of safety to reduce injury.
D
People under the influence of hallucinogenic drugs cannot separate fact from fantasy and have a distortion of senses. They can do unpredictable and dangerous things that can bring them to harm because of their impaired judgment.
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