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Severe withdrawal cases signal rising medetomidine use
Original: Severe withdrawal cases point to growing medetomidine use
Clinicians at Penn Medicine report a growing number of patients experiencing severe withdrawal symptoms linked to medetomidine, a sedative increasingly found in the illicit drug supply. Health experts warn the drug may be mixed with opioids like fentanyl, complicating treatment and making withdrawal harder to manage than typical opioid dependence.
Why now: New clinical reports of severe withdrawal are raising alarm about medetomidine spreading in the drug supply.
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- Severe withdrawal cases point to growing medetomidine use · Penn Medicine
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