Help Your Team Manage Medetomidine Overdoses and Withdrawal

CDC is warning hospitals to look out for overdoses and withdrawal from medetomidine...a contaminant increasingly found in illicit opioids.

Medetomidine is very similar to dexmedetomidine...the same sedative we commonly use in the ICU, OR, etc.

You may also hear medetomidine called “rhino tranq,” “dex,” or “mede.” Most cases have been reported in the Northeast US...but lab tests show medetomidine is getting into more street opioids across the country.