Question

Maurie regularly takes a pain reliever for her back pain. After a few weeks, she notices that she needs to increase the amount of drug that she takes each day to achieve the same level of pain relief. The phenomenon that Maurie is experiencing is called _____.

tolerance

Answer 1

tolerance

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Answer 2

tolerance

Step-by-step explanation:

Tolerance is the diminishing effect of a medication by overexposing the patient to its active ingredient. In practice, this translates into increasing dosages of the same drug to achieve the same results commonly related to standard dosages, similar to what is happening with Maurie's drug.

The reduction in patient response to medication is usually related to frequent and regular drug use to the extent that the scale and nature of medication use can be classified as addiction.