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Bacteria have been found alive in a lake buried one half mile under ice in Antarctica.
Of the estimated 2 million heroin users in the United States, 600,000–800,000 are considered hardcore addicts. Heroin addiction is considered to be one of the hardest addictions to recover from.
In the United States, an estimated 50 million unnecessary antibiotics are prescribed for viral respiratory infections.
Cancer has been around as long as humankind, but only in the second half of the twentieth century did the number of cancer cases explode.
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.