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Components of the central nervous system include:
The brain and spinal cord
A drug that best demonstrates a class's common proper es is called a:
Prototype
The drug that best demonstrates the common proper es of opioid agonists and illustrates their
par cular characteris cs is:
Morphine
An agent that enhances the effects of other drugs is a:
Adjunct medica on
The prototype opioid antagonist is:
Narcan
Which of the following statements regarding opioid agonist-antagonist drugs is TRUE?
This class of drug decreases pain response and has few respiratory depressant or addic ve side
effects
The major difference between anesthe c and neuroleptanesthe c drugs is that the
neuroleptanesthe c drugs:
Are neuromuscular blocking agents that produce paralysis
Benzodiazepines and barbiturates are the two main pharmacological classes in the func onal
class of:
ant-anxiety and seda ve-hypno c drugs
The drug used primarily to treat absence seizures is:
phenytoin
The central nervous system s mulants known as the methylxanthines include:
theophylline