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The nurse is providing care for a client physically dependent on an opioid. How is physical dependence best characterized?

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Physiological tolerance leads to painful effects after withdrawing the medication

Step-by-step explanation:

Physical dependency requires behavioral tolerance to the prolonged use of a medication in such a manner that painful reactions arise when the medication is discontinued, whenever another medication antagonizes its function, and when its dose is of.

Strategies to suppress signs of withdrawals strengthen psychiatric dependency and facilitate increased substance use and substance-taking mental relapses. Sensitivity is also an aspect of substance dependency which involves higher doses.

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