According to the textbook, "Many cocaine users find they can never quite duplicate the high they experienced the first time, so they take increasingly higher doses . . . " This sentence BEST describes:

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Tolerance refers to needing increasingly higher doses of a drug in order to achieve the same effects that were initially achieved with lower doses. This sentence describes individuals needing higher doses of cocaine to achieve the same high, which is indicative of tolerance. Withdrawal refers to the physical and psychological symptoms that occur when a person stops using a drug they are dependent on, whereas dependence and addiction refer to a compulsion to continue using a drug despite negative consequences. The sentence does not provide enough information to determine whether dependence or addiction is present.

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