Reuters (4/2, S K) says the CDC “on Thursday issued a health advisory warning of rising reports from U.S. jurisdictions detecting veterinary sedative medetomidine in the illegal drug supply.” The CDC and the “Office of National Drug Control Policy warned public health professionals, clinicians, laboratorians and people at risk for overdose after medetomidine was detected in the fentanyl supply and linked to a severe withdrawal syndrome from exposure to it.” The two “agencies said it has increasingly been detected in law enforcement drug seizures, drug product and paraphernalia samples and wastewater samples, with the highest concentrations in the Northeast region.”
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