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Excessive alcohol use costs the country approximately $235 billion every year.
About one in five American adults and teenagers have had a genital herpes infection—and most of them don't know it. People with genital herpes have at least twice the risk of becoming infected with HIV if exposed to it than those people who do not have genital herpes.
Illness; diuretics; laxative abuse; hot weather; exercise; sweating; caffeine; alcoholic beverages; starvation diets; inadequate carbohydrate consumption; and diets high in protein, salt, or fiber can cause people to become dehydrated.
Illicit drug use costs the United States approximately $181 billion every year.
In most cases, kidneys can recover from almost complete loss of function, such as in acute kidney (renal) failure.