‘Life-Threatening Withdrawal’: Effects of the Powerful Sedative Medetomidine Continue to Hit PA Hospitals

Hanna Webster – Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

About a year and a half ago, a handful of Pittsburghers started trickling into hospitals with a mysterious constellation of symptoms.

They were heavily sedated and losing consciousness. Some vomited uncontrollably. Others had dangerously fast heartbeats or dangerously high blood pressure. The overdose-reversal medicine naloxone wasn’t helping…

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