The Episodes

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

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

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.

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

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

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?

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

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

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

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

Do you know what toxin abused by teenagers causes sudden cardiac death? How fear can kill you? 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

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

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

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?

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?

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?

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?

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

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

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

Want to know what animal is called the most venomous in the world? If pee is an antidote and how pantyhose makesswimming safer?

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?

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 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 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 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!

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 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!

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!

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!

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?

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?

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?

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?

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?

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?

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?

What antidote has caused more deaths than the toxin itself? Want to know what type of bite has been mistaken for appendicitis?

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?

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?

Description goes hereWant 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?

Want to know what poison makes bones crumble and glow-in-the-dark? What living thing thrives inside Chernobyl?