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Cody openly and honestly discusses his history of addiction with his surgeon prior to surgery and asks what pain medications will have less potential for abuse. What centrally acting synthetic analog of codeine might the surgeon select?

Rabia, who loves to work in her garden, often gets itch rashes on her hands and arms. The rashes are severe enough that Rabia visits her doctor, who prescribes a high potency corticosteroid cream. Rabia is about to apply the cream to her latest rash, which she has scratched until it is raw and bloody. Is this acceptable? 

Warren has been a firm believer in a daily dose of milk of magnesia for most of his life. Is using this substance a safe practice?

Under what circumstances must a MEDWATCH form be completed?

Tracy’s eyes are inflamed. What type of topical agent would provide a barrier function at the level of the conjunctival mucosa and help to dilute and flush various allergens and inflammatory mediators?

Jorja uses a synthetic cannabinoid with effects similar to, but sometimes stronger and more unpredictable than those of marijuana. What is she most likely using?

Ashley has insomnia and her doctor gives her medication to produce sleep. This type of medication is called a(n) ____.

Your patient presents with night blindness, anorexia, weight loss, dry skin and eyes, and pruritis. What should you suspect?

What is the percentage of sodium chloride in “normal” saline?

Lizzy has irritable bowel syndrome and is taking the drug dicyclomine. Dicyclomine acts by _____.