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More than 34,000 trademarked medication names and more than 10,000 generic medication names are in use in the United States.
Malaria was not eliminated in the United States until 1951. The term eliminated means that no new cases arise in a country for 3 years.
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).
Excessive alcohol use costs the country approximately $235 billion every year.
The first documented use of surgical anesthesia in the United States was in Connecticut in 1844.