Multiple Choice
While practicing at an outpatient addiction clinic,the nurse is summarizing a diagram in the orientation handbook for a new nurse who requires orientation.Which statement made by the new nurse most closely aligns with the meaning of this diagram?
A) "Addiction involves an alteration in the amount of available neurotransmitters."
B) "Actions at the neurotransmitter level affecting addiction are not genetic."
C) "High self-esteem as a basis for pleasure seeking lowers neurotransmitter levels."
D) "An addictive personality is identified by differences in the processing of neurotransmitters."
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