Opioid addiction is a common but increasingly concerning problem in the United States. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), “Over 75% of the nearly 107,000 drug overdose deaths in 2021 involved an opioid.”[1] Because opioid addiction often leads to life-threatening overdoses, recovery experts have begun using…

Cocaine is a highly potent stimulant drug that is seldom used as a topical anesthetic. While cocaine has some medicinal uses, it is mostly known for its habit-forming and addictive qualities. People who abuse cocaine are not receiving it by prescription, instead, they buy an illicit form of it on…