Jared regularly takes a pain reliever for his back pain. after a few weeks, he notices that he needs to increase the amount of pain-relieving drug that he takes each day in order to achieve the same level of pain relief. the phenomenon that jared is experiencing is called:

The right answer is Drug tolerance.

The tolerance of a drug can be considered as the ability of the body to support a certain dose of a drug.

Drug tolerance, on the other hand, refers to the decrease of the reaction at repeated constant doses of a drug or the need to increase the doses to maintain a constant effect. Tolerance to the drug may result in physical (physiological) or emotional dependence, which is a state of adjustment associated with withdrawal syndrome upon discontinuation of repeated drug exposure.

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