If you become tolerant to a drug dose that mean it still works the same and you just don't notice?

If you become tolerant to a drug dose that mean it still works the same and you just don't notice?
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No. It means that you have raised your tolerance to that drug and you require more of it to do the same job as less of it once did.
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