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The most common treatment options for addiction include psychotherapy, support groups, and individual counseling.
The most common childhood diseases include croup, chickenpox, ear infections, flu, pneumonia, ringworm, respiratory syncytial virus, scabies, head lice, and asthma.
Aspirin is the most widely used drug in the world. It has even been recognized as such by the Guinness Book of World Records.
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).
More than nineteen million Americans carry the factor V gene that causes blood clots, pulmonary embolism, and heart disease.