...except I think a 19-year-old male asking for ketamine would make any doctor laugh out loud.
Would they're be any way to get any recreational potential from this?
Honestly, probably not worth it. I work in one of the highest volume retail pharmacies on the East coast, and we compound this stuff by the 5 pound tub at a time, a few times per week, typically in a PLO gel format, with Ketoprofen, Gabapentin, Amitriptyline, and Lidocaine (occasionally with other various chemicals). The common name for these ketamine topical pain preparations when in PLO is "Bone Gel" (just as there are various recipes for Nerve gels, BDR, ABR, ABHR etc). Hospice patients are regularly prescribed Bone Gel for local pain, and neuropathy. While I have never used any topical Ketamine preparations myself, they generally get a good response from patients of ours.I wonder if there is a way to extract the ketamine from this cream.