Final answer:
Alcohol Use Disorder Treatment: Remember that the client has a tolerance to alcohol and a cross-tolerance to other sedative-hypnotics. Option C is correct.
Step-by-step explanation:
The correct answer to the question is C: Alcohol Use Disorder Treatment - the client has a tolerance to alcohol and a cross-tolerance to other sedative-hypnotics. Alcohol, along with barbiturates and benzodiazepines, belongs to a class of psychoactive drugs known as central nervous system depressants which affect GABA neurotransmission.
With repeated use of these depressants, a person becomes physically dependent on the substance, potentially exhibiting signs of tolerance and withdrawal.
Alcohol consumption can lead to the development of tolerance, where the body requires increasing amounts of the substance to achieve the same desired effects. Cross-tolerance occurs when tolerance to one substance results in a decreased response to a related substance.
In this case, sedative-hypnotics share similar mechanisms of action in the brain and thus individuals tolerant to alcohol are likely to have cross-tolerance to other drugs in this category, like benzodiazepines and barbiturates.