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More than 2,500 barbiturates have been synthesized. At the height of their popularity, about 50 were marketed for human use.
The B-complex vitamins and vitamin C are not stored in the body and must be replaced each day.
Excessive alcohol use costs the country approximately $235 billion every year.
Eating food that has been cooked with poppy seeds may cause you to fail a drug screening test, because the seeds contain enough opiate alkaloids to register as a positive.
The use of salicylates dates back 2,500 years to Hippocrates's recommendation of willow bark (from which a salicylate is derived) as an aid to the pains of childbirth. However, overdosage of salicylates can harm body fluids, electrolytes, the CNS, the GI tract, the ears, the lungs, the blood, the liver, and the kidneys and cause coma or death.