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Amphetamine poisoning can cause intravascular coagulation, circulatory collapse, rhabdomyolysis, ischemic colitis, acute psychosis, hyperthermia, respiratory distress syndrome, and pericarditis.
Chronic marijuana use can damage the white blood cells and reduce the immune system's ability to respond to disease by as much as 40%. Without a strong immune system, the body is vulnerable to all kinds of degenerative and infectious diseases.
Human kidneys will clean about 1 million gallons of blood in an average lifetime.
According to the FDA, adverse drug events harmed or killed approximately 1,200,000 people in the United States in the year 2015.
When blood is exposed to air, it clots. Heparin allows the blood to come in direct contact with air without clotting.