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The average older adult in the United States takes five prescription drugs per day. Half of these drugs contain a sedative. Alcohol should therefore be avoided by most senior citizens because of the dangerous interactions between alcohol and sedatives.
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Women are 50% to 75% more likely than men to experience an adverse drug reaction.
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Eating food that has been cooked with poppy seeds may cause you to fail a drug screening test, because the seeds contain enough opiate alkaloids to register as a positive.
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The calories found in one piece of cherry cheesecake could light a 60-watt light bulb for 1.5 hours.
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In most cases, kidneys can recover from almost complete loss of function, such as in acute kidney (renal) failure.