A need to take larger and larger doses of sleeping pills to avoid insomnia indicates

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Tolerance is the need to take larger and larger doses of a drug to achieve the same effect, indicating a decreased response to the drug over time. This commonly occurs with sleeping pills and other sedatives. Narcolepsy is a sleep disorder characterized by sudden and uncontrollable sleep attacks, sleep apnea is a condition in which breathing is repeatedly interrupted during sleep, and REM rebound refers to an increase in the amount of REM sleep following a period of sleep deprivation.

A Need to Take Larger and Larger Doses of Sleeping