When People Get "Hooked" on Drug of Abuse, the Sequence

question 11

Multiple Choice

When people get "hooked" on drug of abuse, the sequence of events often proceeds something like this: They take a dose that gives them their desired effect, then after a while that dose does not work anymore, so they up the dose. This cycle can continue for a while, but then they reach the point where if they skip a dose or try to quit, they experience severe withdrawal. Which of the following properties of signaling systems is most likely to explain this series of events?

• A) up-regulation of receptors
• B) down-regulation of receptors
• C) competition
• D) saturation

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