Pick Your Poison

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Want to know what hitchhikers have to do with toxicology? Exposure to what animal has been mistaken for a drug of abuse? What substance costs $40 million dollars per gallon? Listen to find out.  Send us Fan Mail

Want to know what toxin was used by Nazis and is treated with vitamins? Is potent enough to kill a moose in 20 minutes. A poison where the antidote changes the color of your blood and skin? Listen to find out! Send us Fan Mail

Do you know what poison is the most potent known to man, yet is ubiquitous in nature? How you can be poisoned by a prison potato? Listen to find out!  Send us Fan Mail

Want to know what compound from the Amazon combines 2 plants in a bit of ingenious indigenous pharmacology? What substance was considered too dangerous for study in communist countries?  Send us Fan Mail

Want to know poisoning is often mistaken for an allergic reaction? What you risk by eating barracuda? What causes Foreign Accent Syndrome when a person suddenly starts speaking in another language? Listen to find out!  Send us Fan Mail

Want to know what poison makes bones crumble and glow-in-the-dark? What living thing thrives inside Chernobyl?  Listen to find out! Send us Fan Mail

Want to know what poison causes septic shock? What famous scientist died after exposure? And what medical treatment requires a doctor’s note to get through airport security after receiving it? Listen to find out! Send us Fan Mail

Want to know what toxin causes excruciating pain and death in minutes? Has been treated with amputation? And when petroleum jelly (brand name Vaseline) is used to treat poisoning? Listen to find out!  Send us Fan Mail

Want to know what toxin in the local diet affected Artic explorers in the 1800s but not native people? Which body part reflects brain swelling? What did the ancient Egyptians use to treat night blindness?  Send us Fan Mail

What antidote has caused more deaths than the toxin itself? Want to know what type of bite has been mistaken for appendicitis? Listen to find out!  Send us Fan Mail

Want to know what disease is more common in the Emergency Department in the month of January? Has been called Jitterbug? Why Veterans hospitals used to have whisky on the formulary? Listen to find out!  Send us Fan Mail

Want to know what poison is called the Silent Killer? Is colorless, odorless and tasteless i.e. completely undetectable? How car part theft might increase the toxicity of your car? Listen to find out! Send us Fan Mail

Want to know about the dangers of mistletoe tea and snow flocking spray? What life-threatening complication alcohol can cause in a person who isn’t drunk? Listen to find out!  Send us Fan Mail

Want to know what disease affects both sea lions and humans? What toxin inspired a horror film and has also been used as a deworming agent ? Send us Fan Mail

Want to know what substance has been used at parties since 1799 and is still popular on sites like TikTok? Why it’s used as much as 600 times per day and where you can find it in the grocery store? Listen to find out! Send us Fan Mail

Want to know what toxin you can find at a haunted house? How it’s responsible for world-wide outbreaks, poisoning thousands, many of the victims children? How too much exercise can cause kidney failure? Listen to find out! Send us Fan Mail

Want to know how homemade jewelry can poison you? Why some people remain unaffected after exposure to this lethal toxin? How it was used to assassinate dissidents from Eastern Europe?  Listen to find out! Send us Fan Mail

Want to know what phrase strikes fear into the hearts of toxicologists? What was in the state poison Athens used for capital punishment? How people become sick after eating quail? Listen to find out!  Send us Fan Mail

Want to know what over the counter drug is lethal to pets? What important toxicology tool was plotted on a cocktail napkin? What’s the medical use of a barbiturate coma? Listen to find out!  Send us Fan Mail

Want to know what my biggest phobia is? When not to wash a wound? What toxicology problem the WHO calls a neglected tropical disease killing more than 100,000 people per year? Listen to find out! Send us Fan Mail

Want to know how your organs can turn green? About the controversial start to forensic toxicology evidence? And why our patient isn’t responding to treatment? Listen to find out! Send us Fan Mail

Want to know what poison is still used as medicine? Why it’s called the King of Poisons and what it has to do with the very first antibiotic? Listen to find out!  Send us Fan Mail

Want to know what pacifiers have to do with drugs? What toxin causes your brain to swell and how drinking too much water increases the risk? What drug of abuse is currently under review by the FDA as medicine? Listen to find out! Send us Fan Mail

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