Is there such a thing as medicinal alcohol? Medicinal cocaine? Medicinal morphine?
Yes, there is.
Medicinal cocaine? Medicinal morphine?
yes and yes
Pure cocaine is very commonly used in eye surgery.
Morphine surrets, a kind of small foil toothpaste tube with a needle attached, has been used on battlefields for decades.
Morphine and heroin are excellent painkillers, and yes are still used, most commonly morphine in last stage hospice pain managemet,(i.e., doped until you pass away)
Medicinal alcohol.
Of course there is. I keep a bottle of it as a disinfectant.
Bad example? Morphine is definately used commonly in hospitals.
My Grandfather had a "prescription" for whiskey when he was in the hospital.
Sure. But no doctor is going to prescribe a fifth of Jim Beam to overcome cancer pain. And nobody thinks moonshine cures cancer. And nobody thinks smoking crack is healthy.
Absolutely! Somebody saved my life with a flask of whiskey at a dam' cold freep a couple of years ago. Dentists used to use cocaine, and may still in poorer parts of the world. My neighbor, disabled in the Gulf War by the weapons of mass destruction that Saddam "didn't have", is on such a high dose of morphine for his pain that the DEA had to approve it.
A piece of trivia that I picked up from a gardening website: the reason there are poppies growing all over the South is that the Confederate government asked people to raise them for the hospitals, and the plants naturalized.
Yes.
Yes.
Yes. It is used to treat problems with enlarged veins.
Medicinal cocaine?
Yes. It has several uses, including eye drops for certain conditions.
Yes
Medicinal morphine?
Yes, of course.
Was your point that there aren't such uses, or that there are?