Black patients were less likely to receive higher doses. This may reflect inequities in health care or misconceptions among patients that higher doses are unsafe.
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Veterinary drug medetomidine spreads through illicit opioid supply.
Opioid overdoses are now complicated by a powerful animal tranquilliser.
Increasingly, these types of tranquilizers are turning up in fentanyl, oxycodone and other illegal opioids.
An emergency physician and nurse scientist explain what medetomidine is and how to respond if someone is overdosing on it.
More than half of the street fentanyl samples collected in November 2024 contained BTMPS, and many contained more BTMPS than fentanyl.
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