Veterinary tranquillizer in more than 70 per cent of recent Thunder Bay, Ont., drug samples

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More than 70 per cent of street drugs recently tested in Thunder Bay, Ont., have contained a veterinary tranquillizer called medetomidine. The northwestern Ontario city continues to have the highest opioid-related death rate in the province at more than five times the Ontario average. Here's how mobile drug checking services are helping people who use drugs, front-line workers and emergency responders as they navigate the toxic drug crisis.