The Need to Take Increasing Amounts of a Drug to Get

question 47

Multiple Choice

The need to take increasing amounts of a drug to get the same effect that a lower dose used to bring is called

• A)dependence.
• B)addiction.
• C)tolerance.
• D)psychoactivity.

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