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Famous people who died from poisoning or drug overdose include, Adolf Hitler, Socrates, Juan Ponce de Leon, Marilyn Monroe, Judy Garland, and John Belushi.
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Of the estimated 2 million heroin users in the United States, 600,000–800,000 are considered hardcore addicts. Heroin addiction is considered to be one of the hardest addictions to recover from.
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There are major differences in the metabolism of morphine and the illegal drug heroin. Morphine mostly produces its CNS effects through m-receptors, and at k- and d-receptors. Heroin has a slight affinity for opiate receptors. Most of its actions are due to metabolism to active metabolites (6-acetylmorphine, morphine, and morphine-6-glucuronide).
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Aspirin is the most widely used drug in the world. It has even been recognized as such by the Guinness Book of World Records.
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The modern decimal position system was the invention of the Hindus (around 800 AD), involving the placing of numerals to indicate their value (units, tens, hundreds, and so on).
Border Collie
Activity of a Hippocampal Border Cell
Woman (formerly a.k.a. the Venus of Willendorf), Lower Austria.
Pulling a skewer through chocolate and raspberry-sauce dots to create a border of hearts
Brush border cell
South American Indigenous Woman and Child