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The word drug comes from the Dutch word droog (meaning "dry"). For centuries, most drugs came from dried plants, hence the name.
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More than 30% of American adults, and about 12% of children utilize health care approaches that were developed outside of conventional medicine.
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More than 4.4billion prescriptions were dispensed within the United States in 2016.
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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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According to the FDA, adverse drug events harmed or killed approximately 1,200,000 people in the United States in the year 2015.