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Approximately 500,000 babies are born each year in the United States to teenage mothers.
The people with the highest levels of LDL are Mexican American males and non-Hispanic black females.
Opium has influenced much of the world's most popular literature. The following authors were all opium users, of varying degrees: Lewis Carroll, Charles, Dickens, Arthur Conan Doyle, and Oscar Wilde.
More than 30% of American adults, and about 12% of children utilize health care approaches that were developed outside of conventional medicine.
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).