Posted on 05/02/2025 4:39:52 PM PDT by nickcarraway
The drug was first detected in illegally manufactured opioids in North America in 2022
The animal sedative medetomidine is increasingly showing up in the U.S. illegal drug supply, according to three reports released Thursday. Medetomidineopens in a new tab or window, which is used to sedate pets and is somewhat similar to xylazineopens in a new tab or window, was first detected in illegally manufactured opioids in North America in 2022. Investigators say the drug is being mixed in with other illicit drugs, mainly fentanylopens in a new tab or window, the synthetic opioid behind most overdose deaths.
On Thursday, the CDC publishedopens in a new tab or window three reports about recent clusters of medetomidine cases in Chicago, Philadelphia, and Pittsburgh.
In Chicago, health officials last May were puzzled by a surge in overdoses. The patients had taken fentanyl, but the overdose-reversing drug naloxone (Narcan) didn't seem to work. After an investigation, the city's health department reported 12 confirmed cases of medetomidine-involved overdose -- the largest to date -- as well as more than 160 probable or suspected cases including a possible death.
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Folks, what is it about “illegal drug” that makes anyone think that is safe?
You get what you deserve.
Heck, many of the legal ones aren’t exactly ‘safe’ either.
Why do all these drugs open in a new tab or window? Seems suspicious.
These are the kind of people who shouldn’t know what drugs are. They are unable to be free from addictions or were too poorly equipped to resist the long before they went past the suggestion stage.
All of this illegal stuff gets shipped into this country and I think we should be bombing those countries sending us the drugs.
Terminator 3 and John Connor (sorta)
Written by AI? Maybe “in a tablet or pill” turns into “in a tab or window”.
Probably cut and past without taking the ads out.
Also using the elephant tranquilizer
All those drugs open a new window in your mind, man.
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