The device was approved as a way to anesthetize the skin with lidocaine cream to prepare patients, especially children, for painful procedures like the insertion of catheters and .
The doctor allegedly injected Camarena with lidocaine, which kept his heart going to prolong his torture and interrogation by Mexican officials and drug kingpins.
Except that it wasn't lidocaine; it was adrenaline, a powerful stimulant.
Roger Clemens in Reuters When asked by interviewer Mike Wallace if McNamee had ever injected him with any drugs, Clemens said: "Lidocaine and B-12. It's for my joints, and B-12 I still take today."
Dr Gary I Wadler in WMTW It is far less likely that any injection of vitamin B12 or lidocaine, which is usually not injected deep into the body, would have created an abscess,said Dr. Gary I. Wadler, a member of the World Anti-Doping Agency, according to the Times....