BIOLOGICAL BASES OF BEHAVIOR
BIOLOGY OF CONSCIOUSNESS
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Question
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Reduced responsiveness to a drug, prompting the user to take larger doses of the drug
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tolerance
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psychoactive
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dependence
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withdrawal
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Tolerance is a person’s diminished response to a drug, which occurs when the drug is used repeatedly and the body adapts to the continued presence of the drug.
Detailed explanation-2: -There are two types of drug tolerance: physiological and behavioral.
Detailed explanation-3: -A condition that occurs when the body gets used to a medicine so that either more medicine is needed or different medicine is needed.
Detailed explanation-4: -Molecular Mechanisms of Tolerance Historically, tolerance has been divided into three functional classes: acute, rapid, and chronic (see figure 1) based on how long after exposure to alcohol tolerance develops.
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