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Illicit drug use costs the United States approximately $181 billion every year.
Human stomach acid is strong enough to dissolve small pieces of metal such as razor blades or staples.
The use of salicylates dates back 2,500 years to Hippocrates’s recommendation of willow bark (from which a salicylate is derived) as an aid to the pains of childbirth. However, overdosage of salicylates can harm body fluids, electrolytes, the CNS, the GI tract, the ears, the lungs, the blood, the liver, and the kidneys and cause coma or death.
The lipid bilayer is made of phospholipids. They are arranged in a double layer because one of their ends is attracted to water while the other is repelled by water.
More than 150,000 Americans killed by cardiovascular disease are younger than the age of 65 years.