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Medetomidine: what you need to know about the animal sedative turning up in opioid deaths

By Paul Chazot, Professor of Pharmacology, Durham University

The opioid crisis, increasingly driven by synthetic opioids, continues to claim tens of thousands of lives annually in the US alone. Similar crises have arisen all over the western world.

The crisis has become more complex as powerful synthetic opioids like fentanyl, nitazenes and oxycodone are now being “cut” (mixed) with other drugs that slow brain activity, including animal tranquillisers.…

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