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ASAM Releases Alert About Medetomidine In Illicit Drug Supply
February 18, 2026
JEFFERSON CITY, Missouri, Feb. 18 [Category: Health Care]

-- The Missouri Hospital Association posted the following news:

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ASAM Releases Alert About Medetomidine In Illicit Drug Supply

The American Society of Addiction Medicine released an emerging challenge alert for medetomidine, a powerful veterinary sedative that is replacing xylazine as the common adulterant in the drug supply.

Medetomidine is 100 to 200 times more pote . . .

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