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Approximately 25% of all reported medication errors result from some kind of name confusion.
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Cocaine was isolated in 1860 and first used as a local anesthetic in 1884. Its first clinical use was by Sigmund Freud to wean a patient from morphine addiction. The fictional character Sherlock Holmes was supposed to be addicted to cocaine by injection.
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By definition, when a medication is administered intravenously, its bioavailability is 100%.
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In 2010, opiate painkllers, such as morphine, OxyContin®, and Vicodin®, were tied to almost 60% of drug overdose deaths.
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There are approximately 3 million unintended pregnancies in the United States each year.