Mark is having a house party to celebrate landing a new job. He’s been drinking alcohol fairly steadily since early in the evening, and it is now 3:00 a.m. Mark’s friends are having trouble hailing a cab, so Mark offers to drive them home. When they

remind Mark that he’s had a lot to drink, he agrees that he was really drunk a couple of hours ago but says he feels pretty sober now. He suspects he can drive perfectly fine. What is likely happening to Mark?

a. Mark’s body has eliminated the alcohol from his system and he is now nearly sober.
b. Mark is showing acute tolerance to the subjective effects of alcohol.
c. Mark is showing cross-tolerance to the subjective effects of alcohol.
d. Mark is showing pharmacokinetic tolerance to the subjective effects of alcohol.
e. Mark is showing pharmacodynamic tolerance to the subjective effects of alcohol.


Answer: B

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