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The average older adult in the United States takes five prescription drugs per day. Half of these drugs contain a sedative. Alcohol should therefore be avoided by most senior citizens because of the dangerous interactions between alcohol and sedatives.
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Lower drug doses for elderly patients should be used first, with titrations of the dose as tolerated to prevent unwanted drug-related pharmacodynamic effects.
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If all the neurons in the human body were lined up, they would stretch more than 600 miles.
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More than 34,000 trademarked medication names and more than 10,000 generic medication names are in use in the United States.
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More than nineteen million Americans carry the factor V gene that causes blood clots, pulmonary embolism, and heart disease.