Though methadone is often used to treat dependency on other opioids, the drug itself can be abused. Crushing or snorting methadone can achieve the opiate "rush" desired by addicts. Improper use such as these can lead to a dangerous dependency on methadone. This drug now accounts for nearly one-third of opioid-related deaths.
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Malaria was not eliminated in the United States until 1951. The term eliminated means that no new cases arise in a country for 3 years.
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Approximately 500,000 babies are born each year in the United States to teenage mothers.
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Your chance of developing a kidney stone is 1 in 10. In recent years, approximately 3.7 million people in the United States were diagnosed with a kidney disease.
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Many medications that are used to treat infertility are injected subcutaneously. This is easy to do using the anterior abdomen as the site of injection but avoiding the area directly around the belly button.
Surgical instruments prepared for a procedure.
Vasectomy Procedure
Successful male musical groups may owe some of their popularity among preteen girls to adrenarche.
How to create a frequency table and histogram from raw data
A hypothetical grid of data used in synteny testing
Microarray procedure for analyzing gene expression in normal and cancer cells