Dr. JP shares her passion for poisons in this interactive show. Pick Your Poison is a fast-paced, interactive podcast about poisons and toxins, mischief and murder ranging from ancient history to pop culture. Your choices direct the diagnosis and treatment. Make the wrong choice and our patient won’t survive the podcast.
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 a text
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 a text
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 a text
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 a text
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 a text
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 a text
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 a text
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 a text
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 a text
hat 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 a text
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 a text
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 a text
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 a text
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 a text
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 a text
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 a text
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 a text
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 a text
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 a text
Send us a Text Message.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 a Text Message.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 a Text Message.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!
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!
Will you survive this podcast? Want to know how lack of smell might kill you? What lethal poison routinely kills rescuers, yet is made in your body? Listen to find out!
Want to know the common way people are exposed to the chemical causing lung damage in microwave popcorn workers? What vitamin might be toxic for your lungs and how you can inhale heavy metals without welding? Listen to find out!
Want to know what upholstery has to do with seizures? What poison murdered children during the Kindergarten Wars? What toxin sends a shiver of fear down my own spine? Listen to find out!
Want to know what toxin has killed hundreds of thousands of people, has been associated with the Salem Witch Trials and is the source of modern hallucinogens? Then stay tuned!
Want to know what animal is called the most venomous in the world? If pee is an antidote and how pantyhose makes swimming safer? Listen to find out!
How you might accidently kill a patient with intubation? Want to know what drug Kafka called the only remedy against the misery of being? The compound that might've played a role in Rasputin's influence over the Romanovs? Listen to find out!
Want to know what favorite poison of Agatha Christie's is also used as a performance enhancer? What compound was used as rat poison and also in doping during the Tour de France? Listen to find out!
Want to know what leaf can cause symptoms of an opioid overdose? Use of what herbal has resulted in liver transplants and also causes a rash called crocodile skin? Listen to find out!
Want to know what class of drugs is dangerous enough to have been used by a serial killer nurse, but is also in cough drops? What antidote for the life-threatening overdoses caused these drugs is a common nutritional ingredient? Listen to find out!
Want to know what chemical used to make explosives is also used for weight loss? What drug was used to keep soldiers warm during WWII? Listen to find out!
Want to know what medicine is derived from PCP? Why it's medical use resulted in murder charges and convictions? Listen to find out!
Want to know what's called the disease of kings? What toxic plant is used to treat it? What prehistoric animal also suffered from this disease? Listen to find out!
Want to know what poison causes blindness? Why some prison commissaries don't stock fruit? What toxins were intentionally used to adulterate alcohol during Prohibition? Listen to find out!
Want to know what risky behavior often targets pregnant women and children? What massive overdose requires surgical intervention? What exactly is a drug loo and where can you find one? Listen to find out!
Want to know what poison causes pathological shyness and is historically associated with being mad as a hatter? What causes dancing cat fever and might have contributed to the death of John Wilkes Booth? Listen to find out!
What poison makes you mad as a hatter? What's the brand-new antidote for it hot off the presses? What medicine comes from a bean used in African witchcraft trials? Listen to find out!
Do you know what toxin abused by teenagers causes sudden cardiac death? How fear can kill you? Listen to find out! Will our patient survive this podcast? It's up to you and the choices you make.
Want to know why people are intentionally poisoning themselves with frog poison? What happens when you take it? And what could possibly go wrong? Listen to find out!
Want to know what category of poisons is named the new guy in Russian? How a man dropped dead in minutes of a potent toxin applied by people wearing no PPE, without the poisoners suffering any symptoms? And what's the antidote to these poisons? Listen to find out!
Do you know what type of poisoning affects three million people each year? What this poison has to do with chemical weapons? And what toxin is so potent it can kill lions in just a few steps? Listen to find out!
What to know what poison is more potent than cyanide? Where it occurs in the natural world? And what famous explorer survived his exposure to it? Listen to find out!
Want to know what drug has caused the same number of American deaths as World War I? Want to know how to treat an overdose? Want to know what new adulterant in this drug is causing horrific non-healing wounds? Then stay tuned!
This is the first historical episode, looking back at riveting, and often harrowing, stories of poisoning from the past. Today we'll discuss the Moscow Theater Crisis and what happened when Chechen rebels held Russian theatergoers hostage. Did the Russians government's unusual response to the crisis help or hurt the hostages? We will also touch on what these events from twenty years ago have to do with today's very current drug epidemic. Want to know what links these two seemingly disparate things? Stay tuned to find out.
Want to know about the dangers of black-market butt lifts? How they can kill you? What hardware stores and hotel rooms have to do with healthcare? Or in this case, shouldn't have to do with healthcare? Listen for more!
Interested in toxic tea? The poison associated with werewolves? And so potent it was used on poison arrows to hunt bears, ibexes and even whales. A substance used as both a poison and a medicine? Listen to hear more!
Do you want to know which substance is so toxic it's called the poisoner's poison? What pigment used in painting is used to treat this toxin? And which antidote contains cyanide? Listen to find out more.
Dr. JP shares her passion for poisons in this interactive podcast. Will our patient survive this podcast? It's up to you and the choices you make. Interested in aphrodisiacs? Want to know what EKGs have to do with mustaches, and what toads have to do with van Gogh? Listen to find out.
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