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NREMT Advanced EMT

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You arrive at a home in which an individual has overdosed on heroin. What drug would you administer?

NSAID
Naloxone
Aspirin
Morphine

Explanation

Answer - B - A patient who has overdosed on heroin would have naloxone administered. Heroin is an opioid. When overdosed, it causes severe respiratory depression unconsciousness, and pinpoint pupils. To treat a heroin overdose, administer naloxone, a competitive opioid antagonist. The naloxone will compete with the heroin for the receptor sites and block the effects of the opioid-namely, respiratory depression.

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