Dependence & tolerance
The effect that builds quietly under stimulants: the same dose does less, the higher one does what the first used to, and at some point the day without it is the problem.
Caused by
6Substances on this site that list this effect.
What works against it
0Substances used against it. Descriptive — not a recommendation to take them.
No substance on this site works against this directly — dose, duration and monitoring are the levers.
What you can do yourself
No compound involved — the part that comes down to dose, training and everyday habits. Often the larger lever, and always the cheaper one.
Days off, planned in advance
Two days a week without it, scheduled beforehand rather than attempted once it already feels necessary.
The smallest dose that works
Tolerance follows the dose. Starting high spends the headroom you will want in three months.
Watch what it is propping up
A stimulant that makes a deficit or a bad sleep schedule bearable gets taken for as long as those last. That is where a daily habit comes from.
How you notice it
The honest test is a week off. If that week is unusable — flat, irritable, unable to work — the substance was holding up a baseline, not raising one.
Connected to
Effects that share a cause with this one, get confused with it, or follow from overcorrecting it.
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Descriptive, not a recommendation. That a countermeasure exists does not make the cause harmless.