A staff nurse is working with a client on the medical unit.
The health care provider prescribes aspirin for the client to treat headache.
The client forgets and drinks two bottles of beer, which caused GI bleeding.
How should the nurse analyze this drug-drug interaction?

Choice A rationale

Opioid toxicity triad includes symptoms of pinpoint pupils, respiratory depression, and coma. These symptoms are indicative of a morphine sulfate overdose.

Choice B rationale

Orthostatic hypotension is a form of low blood pressure that happens when standing up from sitting or lying down. It is not related to opioid toxicity.

Choice C rationale

Hypertension is high blood pressure. It is not related to opioid toxicity.

Choice D rationale

Abstinence syndrome is a group of symptoms that occur upon the abrupt discontinuation or decrease in intake of medications or recreational drugs. It is not the appropriate complication for the client's presentation. .

Choice A rationale

This statement is incorrect because an antagonist medication changes the effects of normal cellular functions by blocking receptors.

Choice B rationale

An antagonist medication binds to receptors and blocks the usual receptor activity, preventing the normal action of the endogenous substance.

Choice C rationale

This statement describes an agonist medication, which binds to receptors and increases the effects of normal cellular functions.

Choice D rationale

This statement is incorrect because an antagonist medication does not both increase and decrease the effects on normal cellular functions; it primarily blocks receptor activity.