April doesn’t use street drugs anymore, but that’s all she’s talking about these days with friends in the street community who still do, warning them of the dangerous veterinary anesthetic currently showing up in the Vancouver Island drug stream. Medetomadine is a heavy sedative that increases the sedation effect of opioids and doesn’t respond to the overdose-reversing drug naloxone. “My girlfriend in Port Alberni called me up and said, ‘You need to tell everyone about this drug.’ I have a feeling when it gets into town, people are going to be dropping like flies.” In fact, it’s already here – the drug checkers have issued their own warnings after medetomadine showed up last week in a sample of “down.”