Well im trying to post the website link in the little box but my browser wont let me! anyway its: http://www.pharmaceuticals.mallinckrodt.com/Products/Product.asp?ProductID=5498

i was just poking around and saw this! and funny thing i was just wondering if there were other illegal drugs used for medicinal purposes! (lets see they got THC, AMPHETAMINE, DEXAMPHETAMINE, METHAMPHETAMINE, COCCAINE, LSD whats next alcohol, and nicotine?) honestly who needs some of this stuff (cacaine, mainly) its just gonan go up someones noise! same for that one drug used fo ropium and herione addiction its 10 times more stronger than heroin and 10 times more addictive yet used to TREAT herion addiction its umm... methadone yea methadone.

-edit- sorry for posting in wrong place i knew i shoulda put it somewhere else but thanks

MDMA (a.k.a. Ecstacy) was originally trialled for psychiatric usage, it's good for it's euphoric effects (so a 'friend' tells me ;) )

That's the only one that I can think of at the moment that isn't on your list.

Cocaine is used in surgery and emergency departments in every hospital in this country. It turns out that for certain types of surgery, it is the safest and most effective topical anaesthetic. Remember that even though you receive general anaesthesia to put you to sleep, you still need to anaesthetize some tissues before cutting through them. Remember that the other topical anaesthetics like lidocaine, procaine (novocaine), and benzocaine were all derived from cocaine.

Ironically (and I know this because I have had several surgeries of this type before), one procedure in which it is commonly used is nasal sinus surgery.

Incidentally, phencyclidine (PCP) used to be used as a surgical anaesthetic, as was ketamine (and ketamine is still used in animals). Neither are used in humans (except some situations where ketamine is used on children as they cannot experience the side-effects) due to reported "emergence phenomena," where patients awoke from anaesthesia in an hallucinogenic state. As one of the commonly reported effects was a dissociated or "out-of-body" experience, it is obvious why this might be an unfortunate side-effect for patients coming out of surgery for potentially life-threatening conditions. Their use was discontinued very quickly.