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!

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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!

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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! 

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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. 

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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!

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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!

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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!

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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!

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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! 

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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.

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