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What is the name given to a person needing more and more of a drug to feel its effects?

The term for needing increasing amounts of a drug to achieve the same effect is tolerance. Tolerance occurs when the body adapts to the drug and requires higher doses to produce the desired effects.


How do physical and psychological dependencies differ?

Physical dependence is characterized by discomfort if drug administration suddenly stops, while psychological addiction is characterized by an overpowering craving for the drug for reasons other than pain relief.


What is psychological dependence?

It means that when you take drugs and are addicted you do not get high anymore. Your body has become so dependent on drugs that you need that drug to survive, otherwise you will be what is called "dope sick". When you are on drugs all that pain is blocked out, but when you stop taking them all that pain you blocked out will hit you, but ten times worse.


How do you know when you're addicted to crack?

When you depend on it, like you would with drugs, when you do highly addictive drugs, for example the drug will change the shape of specially shaped sensors in your spinal cord, and so you will need that drug for along time, your body depends on it. So if you took away a heroin addicts drugs they would have a departure from the drugs and cause them a medical problem, which they'll need help for. So if your addicted to something it means it's hard to live with out, and dependable.


An uncontrollable dependence on a drug is known as?

An addiction. It is a state on does not desire to be in