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Sunday 2 November 2014

Drug

The Sarpa salpa, a fish that causes hallucinations when its head is consumed, was used by the Ancient Romans as a recreational drug.

In English, the noun "drug" is thought to originate from Old French "drogue", possibly deriving later into "droge-vate" from Middle Dutch meaning "dry barrels", referring to medicinal plants preserved in them.

In 1935 Gerhard Domagk, a German chemist, discovered the sulphonamide drug, Sulphanilamide was the first drug to be used for the prevention and cure of bacterial infections. Originally Domagk demonstrated the antibacterial effects of the sulphonamide Prontosil in mice with streptococcal bacteria infections. Later he treated his own daughter with it, saving the amputation of one of her arms.

The first thing ever sold on the internet was illegal drugs. In the early 1970s Stanford students used Arpanet accounts at Stanford University's Artificial Intelligence Laboratory to engage in a commercial transaction with their counterparts at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The students used the network to quietly arrange the sale of some marijuana.

The Mexican Drug Cartels made a combined estimate of $29 billion dollars in 2010 about the same as Google.

In the US Alaska has the lowest percentage of people who use drugs to relax ((13%). West Virginia has the highest percentage (28%).

An FDA study requested by the military found 90% of more than 100 drugs, both prescription and over-the-counter, were still safe and effective even 15 years after the expiration date. Expiration dates don’t really indicate a point at which the medication is no longer effective or unsafe to use.

Americans spent $329.2 billion in 2016 on pharmaceutical drugs—that works out to $1,000 per American.

Drug overdose deaths in the US reached their highest point ever recorded in 2021, with more than 100,000 deaths over 12 months. 

The fourth leading cause of death in the United States is adverse reactions to FDA approved drugs. 

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