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Severe withdrawal cases point to growing medetomidine use
Doctors are reporting severe withdrawal cases linked to medetomidine, a veterinary sedative increasingly appearing in the illicit drug supply. Penn Medicine highlighted the trend, suggesting growing use of the drug alongside or in place of other sedatives like xylazine. Clinicians say withdrawal from medetomidine can be intense and hard to treat, raising concern about a new and poorly understood substance complicating the overdose crisis.
Why now: New clinical reports of severe withdrawal are raising alarms about medetomidine emerging in the drug supply.
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- Severe withdrawal cases point to growing medetomidine use · Penn Medicine
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