Nectar

Nectar is a highly-addictive chem created by Walter Leach and manufactured for Hot-Rod $$

Background
Nectar was formulated by Walter Leach while traveling with Donna “Dawn” Bonnet and Jovaughna Terrence. Designed as an "honest-to-God painkiller," Leach created it in the hope that it would help people, seeing what "the pain the Wasteland brings to everyone." When the trio discovered the Mt. Sin Central Clinic, Leach used the opportunity to begin the manufacturing of Nectar, utilizing equipment from the basement of the clinic and setting up a lab west inside a Goodfellow's Groceries.

Leach experimented with the drug on local passerbys, sewing up their wounds and healing any damages while they were under its effects, noting that they "didn’t feel a thing." Four months after the clinic began operation, Leach was approached by local raider boss, Hot-Rod, cutting a deal with him; the manufacturing of Nectar in exchange for "more Caps than [the Clinic] could ever refuse." Leach became aware of the chem's highly-addictive effects two months later, when the clinic began receiving an influx of chem-addicted patients. As a result, he ended all production of the chem.

Effects and addiction
Nectar works as a painkiller, with its users being numb to pain. Addiction to Nectar comes with a set of symptoms: abnormal hair growth along the back of the neck and extremities, severe bloodshot eyes, profuse sweating, persistent and violent coughs, sores along the interior and exterior of the mouth and mild audio-visual hallucinations, most commonly involving an inversion of one's color perception.

Addictol and folk-remedies, such as Radscorpion Egg Omelettes, are ineffective against Nectar addiction, only making treatment costly and incomplete.