Throwing items at any hex is going to be a possibility soon. It might even be implemented in the obt already, not sure. Being able to throw any non 'throwing' item, (i.e. not a grenade, molotov, etc.) to someone with an open hand slot might be a better solution than allowing the use of drugs on others. If they don't have an item in their active slot, whatever you throw to them becomes the active item. If not, it fills the secondary slot.
Since this would affect weapons as well, throwing weapons at someone with an item in their hand would still do damage, but if their active slot is empty, they could catch it. This could even be cool with grenades and such, where catching it would let you throw the grenade back if it was fast enough, but that might cause some problems for throwing builds.