Brendan Hart, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine at the Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University, joined NPR to discuss medetomidine, a powerful sedative used by veterinarians that has been showing up in overdose samples. Naloxone doesn’t work with medetomidine, and no one knows the long-term health effects of the sedative.
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