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More than 2,500 barbiturates have been synthesized. At the height of their popularity, about 50 were marketed for human use.
In the United States, there is a birth every 8 seconds, according to the U.S. Census Bureau's Population Clock.
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 1864, the first barbiturate (barbituric acid) was synthesized.
Although the Roman numeral for the number 4 has always been taught to have been "IV," according to historians, the ancient Romans probably used "IIII" most of the time. This is partially backed up by the fact that early grandfather clocks displayed IIII for the number 4 instead of IV. Early clockmakers apparently thought that the IIII balanced out the VIII (used for the number 8) on the clock face and that it just looked better.