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Illicit drug use costs the United States approximately $181 billion every year.
There are over 65,000 known species of protozoa. About 10,000 species are parasitic.
The first documented use of surgical anesthesia in the United States was in Connecticut in 1844.
The average person is easily confused by the terms pharmaceutics and pharmacology, thinking they are one and the same. Whereas pharmaceutics is the science of preparing and dispensing drugs (otherwise known as the science of pharmacy), pharmacology is the study of medications.
Automated pill dispensing systems have alarms to alert patients when the correct dosing time has arrived. Most systems work with many varieties of medications, so patients who are taking a variety of drugs can still be in control of their dose regimen.