AUDIO – MAKING FENTANYL WORSE –
May 24, 2024 – Medetomidine a chemical long used by veterinarians, is now turning up in the street drug supply and triggering a new wave of overdoses. BRENDAN HART: Some of our emergency medicine doctors stopped me in the hallway and said something funny is going on with the overdoses. MANN: Working in emergency rooms, Hart, too, began seeing a spike of fentanyl overdoses with dangerous new symptoms. HART: Patients are coming in with very low heart rates, as low as in the 20s. A normal heart rate is 60 to 100, so 20 is extremely low.
