<em>Notes from the Field</em>: Detection of Medetomidine Among Patients Evaluated in Emergency Departments for Suspected Opioid Overdoses - Missouri, Colorado, and Pennsylvania, September 2020-December 2023

This month, Health Affairs devoted an entire issue to address the question “How might we reimagine what it takes to protect and promote the public’s health?” American public health is a sprawling cacophony of a system comprising over 3,300 state and local health departments, a fact in which lie both opportunity (troves of local data for tailoring interventions) and logistical minefields (to which