Newfoundland RCMP issue warning on ‘extremely lethal’ street-drug mixture after making seizure

Police in Newfoundland are warning about an “extremely lethal” street-drug combination being seized in that province for the first time, after a spate of similar public warnings by other Canadian provinces and U.S. cities over the past year.This seizure of medetomidine-tainted fentanyl comes amid growing alarm in North America about that particularly volatile mixture of chemical opioids and animal sedatives.Fentanyl is a notoriously deadly street drug that contributes to thousands of fatal overdoses in Canada each year. It is at the centre of a years-long opioid overdose crisis across North America, but its dealers and manufacturers are now adding unpredictability by mixing in veterinary sedatives.