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The highest suicide rate in the United States is among people ages 65 years and older. Almost 15% of people in this age group commit suicide every year.
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Illicit drug use costs the United States approximately $181 billion every year.
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If you could remove all of your skin, it would weigh up to 5 pounds.
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The first oral chemotherapy drug for colon cancer was approved by FDA in 2001.
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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).