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** Similarly, this has been found to happen with antibiotics. Recently, doctors have been refusing to prescribe antibiotics to children for basic ear infections, since ear infections tend to get better on their own (and tend to usually be more annoying than dangerous,) and because eventually, over-prescribing antibiotics render them less effective in the event that they catch something more dangerous later on.

* According to legend, the Aztecs got their red skin tone from the arsenic in their systems obtained by taking it over time to build up immunity.

* CS gas is regularly used in military training for chemical warfare preparation. Instructors for this training often acquire significant resistance over time.

* Less biological and more psychological is that it is standard practice for police officers to be hit with a Taser or pepper spray before they carry them. This aids them in fighting through the effects, which is important since pepper spray is effected by wind and the (hard to see) wires of a deployed taser are hazardous. <ref>It also has legal benefits since an officer can say they know exactly how it feels when asked in court, but that's not really important for this trope.</ref>

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