Severe withdrawal cases point to growing medetomidine use

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A powerful veterinary sedative, medetomidine, is increasingly appearing in street supplies of the already deadly opioid fentanyl, and the number of patients suffering from medetomidine withdrawal has quadrupled in recent years, according to a new analysis by researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.

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Severe withdrawal cases point to growing medetomidine use

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