The Drug Enforcement Administration is monitoring emerging threats from potent synthetic substances, including nitazenes and ...

Dexmedetomidine administration is rising in opioid use disorder-related hospitalizations due to medetomidine appearing in illicit fentanyl.

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Fentanyl is no longer the only substance keeping addiction clinicians up at night. Some of the newest threats are being sold ...

A powerful veterinary sedative, medetomidine, is increasingly appearing in street supplies of the already deadly opioid fentanyl, and the number of patients suffering from medetomidine withdrawal has ...

28-Sep-2026 at 4:30 PM EDT, by Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania contact patient services “You can’t address something you can’t see,” said the study’s co-first author, ...

Growing treatment of severe withdrawal in patients with opioid use points to the consequences of the increase of medetomidine in street fentanyl supply. Treatment numbers rose over the 2010s as the ...

A recent drug alert posted online by a Winnipeg public health team shows how the street supply is increasingly unpredictable as substances have become more powerful and dangerous.

Public Health Scotland has recently raised concern about a new veterinary drug being spotted in the illicit supply of opioids like heroin.

A new street drug nicknamed “rhino tranq” is sweeping Scotland's streets. Medetomidine – a strong veterinary sedative normally used to knock out large animals before surgery – is increasingly being ...