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Pick Your Poison
Hosted by Dr. JP · EN
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.
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Blue Mood
Sep 1600:18:01Tap to summarizeWant to know what the wet-dog shakes have to do with humans? What drug reaction causes a temperature so high it can cook the proteins inside your body? What over the counter medicine can cause a potentially life-threatening reaction with SSRIs? Listen to find out. Send us a text
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Sep 900:00:39Tap to summarizeInterested in poisons, mystery, and murder in mayhem? You're in the right place. This is Pick your Poison. I'm your host, Dr. JP, here to share my passion for poisons. It is a fast-paced interactive show where your choices direct the diagnosis and treatment. Send us a text
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Abyssinian Tea
Aug 2600:15:23Tap to summarizeWant to know what substance is used by 20 million people a day worldwide, but almost unknown in Western countries. What movie might’ve included US drug policy and what plant’s potency decreases rapidly once it’s picked? Listen to find out! Send us a text
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Fresh Air
Aug 12, 202500:23:34Tap to summarizeWhat to know what antidote is getting more attention on social media than the poison it treats? What happens if the doctor panics while giving it. Why people are drinking fish tank antifungal cleaner? Listen to find out! Send us a text
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Hemorrhage Part 2
Jul 29, 202500:20:08Tap to summarizeWant to know what dictators’ autopsy was published on the front page of the newspaper, why he hated doctors and what that had to do with his death? What leeches were used for in 1950? Listen to find out!Send us a text
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Hemorrhage
Jul 15, 202500:22:23Tap to summarizeWant to know why cocaine is used in the operating room? What toxin has been used in bombs, impregnated into clothing and sprayed on salad bars? What rat poison is treated with vitamins? Listen to find out!Send us a text
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Pumped
Jun 25, 202500:18:49Tap to summarizeWant to know what eating meat has to do with doping and drug testing in the Olympics? What medicine to treat asthma in horses is abused by humans for weight loss? Listen to find out!Send us a text
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Hitchhiker
Jun 11, 202500:16:58Tap to summarizeWant 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
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Bitter Brew
Apr 30, 2025Tap to summarizeWant 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 a text
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