I have a question

[TikkiTT]

I posted an introductory post but something I have wondered about for a long time, so I am posing it to everyone....and I hope that is okay.

My doctor used to prescribe me a ridiculous amount of 10/325s....240 a month.    Since I only took less than half of that, it was very tempting to sell the extras.    I finally told him that I was getting too many and to cut it down to half of that.    So I had the occasion to meet some young people who were on very high doses.    I'll just leave it at that.  (When I say "young people"....I am not talking about teens, but about people in their 30's.   At my age, almost everyone is a young person.)   But what I seem to understand from them was taking 15 to 30 hydros a day didn't make them feel high.....it was what it took to make them feel "normal".    I could relate to that because even though I was on a fairly low dose, and taking the pills that I took, didn't make me feel high.    It made me feel okay.    Sort of like everything was okay....but not hyper or sleepy or really, not high.    I have experienced a little bit of "high"....I used to smoke marijuana.    Being the "health nut" I was (ha-ha) I wouldn't buy it because I was "paranoid" about how it was raised, so I grew my own.    Smoked all I wanted and sold the rest.    I have never drank to excess because I don't like how drinking makes me feel....sleepy....so my question is, when you take a lot of a drug, does it really make you feel high, or have you built up a resistance until it just makes you feel normal?   I hope you don't mind me asking.   I have always wondered about this.

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[TikkiTT]

Thanks for explaining.    And it does make sense.    What makes me feel "normal" might be different than what it takes others feel "normal" on a higher dose....but as you build up a tolerance, the range of "normal" changes.   Anyway, I think that's right.   I am not feeling very swift this morning.

[weaver71]

Tolernance is a symptom of addiction, more and more drug is needed to create the same effect. It is not uncommon for a dose high enough to get a person high would kill them. Our brain receptors shrink and recess from extended use, that is what causes tolerance. Though the addict will say, "it takes that many to feel normal," normal is relative. When high becomes the norm and one is sick without drugs, then that is as good as it gets, permanently high or sick, even if one doesn't feel high. But yes, tolerance does make it so on drugs is as normal as one can feel.