Lethal Dose

This episode is a deep-dive into a purgative that has withstood the test of time, for better or for worse. To demonstrate the dangers of ipecac in the wrong hands, Kayla tells Venus about the 1994 trials of Christina Rubio for the attempted murder of her daughter and the murder of her son. Trigger warnings for discussion of child abuse and death, and for discussion of eating disorders. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

In 2007, there was a large-scale poisoning of babies from drinking tainted milk powder in China, which was covered up by government officials and dairy industry executives. This wasn't the first time melamine was used as an artificial protein in a food source, and, unfortunately, it also wasn't the last. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Even too much of a good thing can be deadly. This episode covers the accidental water intoxication death of Jennifer Strange in 2007 following a radio station contest. Mentions of child abuse later on in the show. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

This episode is an overview of the dangers of synthetic cannabinoids and some mythbusting about their safety and their similarities to naturally produced cannabinoids. Stay safe, everyone! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

We're throwing it back old school and discussing Socrates' state-ordered suicide by hemlock. Was he actually killed with hemlock, as Plato described, or was something else going on? --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

This episode continues our foray into poisons used by agents of the Russian government which we began examining in Episode 20: Ricin. We cover the creation of The Chamber, truth serums, and the polonium used to assassinate Alexander Litvinenko in 2006. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

By popular listener demand, today's episode covers the 1978 assassination of Georgi Markov using one of the world's oldest poisons. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

In 1915, an orderly at the German Odd Fellows home killed eight patients with chloroform. A hundred years later, chloroform was still being used for murderous purposes in the murder of Sameena Imam. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Happy new year! In this episode, Kayla and Venus talk about one of the most popular poisons known to humans and how it was used in the serial slayings of indigenous Canadian women in the 1980s. Content warning for sexual assault, race-based hate crimes, crimes against sex workers, and brief mention of assault on a child. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

This episode was our very first microdose made available to our patrons. Florence Maybrick was accused of fatally poisoning her husband, James Maybrick, with arsenic in 1899. She was tried and found guilty, but was justice served? --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

In this season 2 finale episode, Kayla relates the drama of the mysterious death of Jane Stanford by strychnine to Venus. Did she die from natural causes, or was our Mr. Body killed in the hotel room with the bottle of poison? --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Wash your damn hands! Kayla and Venus talk with Bryce Cherven of Pastry Unicorn to discuss a slew of salmonella typhi poisonings at the hands of Mary Mallon in the late 1910's. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Happy Halloween! This episode, we discuss one of the few instances of poisoned candy at Halloween with the 1858 Bradford Sweets Poisoning. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Don't believe everything you see in the movies. Spiking someone's drink with eye drops containing tetrahydrozoline won't get you more face time with Rachel McAdams, but it might kill Bradley Cooper. On this episode, Kayla and Venus discuss how Lana Clayton murdered her husband Steve Clayton in 2018. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

The times are changing, but not fast enough. Venus and Kayla discuss the use of ketamine by emergency medical personnel under the direction of police forces in the United States and how the drug contributed to the death of James Britt, Jr. in 2019. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Do you know what the worst manmade medical disaster in history was? It wasn't all that long ago! Venus and Kayla discuss the poison that caused thousands of severe birth defects worldwide and has still yet to be fully addressed. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

On this season 2 premiere episode, Kayla and Venus talk with model and actress Saucy Stassi about the fentanyl-related death of Bailey Henke and the DEA operation that it inspired. Content warning for brief mention of sexual assault in the introduction. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

In this follow-up Patreon exclusive video to our main channel Birth Control Pill episode, Venus and Kayla discuss hormones, sexism, and genocide. Get ready to get mad. Trigger warnings for body talk including numbers and BMI, and for talk of incarceration and racism.

The history of the first hormonal birth control pill is a sordid tale of ethical violations committed against Puerto Rican women in the late 1950's by Harvard researchers, Proctor & Gamble, and funded by the founder of Planned Parenthood.

From famous Reddit posts and teenage suicides that result in homicide trials to Texan winters and haunted houses, we cover it all on this episode. Content warning: abuse, suicide, self-harm, and eating disorders in teenagers.

We are doing a giveaway for a free year-long Patreon subscription before season 1 ends and we go on summer break.

Insulin is a life-saving cure for diabetic patients, but was used to kill at least nine people at a VA hospital in West Virginia around 2018.

Homicide by nicotine. This episode describes the murder of Linda Curry by her husband, Paul Curry. Kayla and Venus also discuss nicotine-contaminated ground beef and how the analytical method for extracting alkaloid drugs was done out of spite. Audio clip is from the movie Thank You for Smoking.

In the second half of our two-part series on the chemical warfare agents in the Vietnam War, we discuss arsenic-containing Agent Blue, and Agent White.

In the first of a two part series, Kayla and Venus discuss the use of Agent Orange during the Vietnam War and the absolutely devastating effects that this chemical had on the environment and people of Vietnam, as well as the U.S. servicemen who dispersed it, potentially without knowing what it could or would do.

Kayla tells Venus about the murder of James Baker III by his wife, Jamie Baker, using antifreeze-spiked anabolic steroids. We also talk about animal poisonings, suicide, and whether or not we're all just in our antemortem phase.

Kayla and Venus discuss table salt, which Lacey Spears used to kill her son, Garnett, in 2014. This episode contains discussion of child abuse and death.

Kayla and Venus discuss arsenic as a drug and a poison beginning in Antiquity with descriptions from Hippocrates and ending in the 1800s with the implementation of the Marsh test.

Kayla nerds out on Venus with some toxicology concepts and terms in order to tell you that botulinum toxins could be used in war, assassination attempts, and to poison the food supply. Don't freak out.

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