Why Do I Have to Keep Using More to Get High?

Why Do I Have to Keep Using More to Get High? When using drugs or alcohol, you may start to find that you need to keep using more to get high than you did when you first started. When a couple of glasses of wine used to get you plenty drunk, you’re finding that you need a full bottle or even more. This is called building tolerance and can cause some damaging effects to the body, including leading to addiction and death. Using More to Get High: Building Tolerance According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, tolerance occurs when the person no longer responds to the drug in the way that person initially responded. Stated another way, it takes a higher dose of the drug to achieve the same level of response achieved initially. For example, in the case of heroin or morphine, tolerance develops rapidly to the analgesic effects of the drug. The development of tolerance is not addiction, although many drugs that produce tolerance also have addictive potential. Tolerance can build for many things, not just drugs or alcohol. Understanding these correlations can better help someone understand how it can relate to drugs. Tolerance can occur with spicy foods, warm or cold weather, exercise routines or getting into a cold body of water. The more time and exposure your body has to this thing, the more it is able to eventually withstand against it and be more comfortable with it. However, the damages or effects can still happen, no matter how much tolerance has built. For example, yo...
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