Pick Your Poison

By Dr. JP

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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.


Episode Date
Dead Weight: A Civil War Artifact Toxicology Mystery
Aug 25, 2026
Short Circuit : A Medical Mystery of Seizures and Poisoning
Aug 11, 2026
Green Fairy: Psychosis at the Absinthe Bar
Jul 21, 2026
Wild Mistake: A Deadly Foraging Mystery
Jul 07, 2026
Poisoned Paper: The Prison Contraband Mystery
Jun 23, 2026
Breathless: The Paleolithic Hazard Hiding in Modern Kitchens
Jun 09, 2026
Burning Desire: Insect toxin, aphrodisiac, and poison
May 26, 2026
Cold Fire: Poison that can combust in the ER
May 13, 2026
Killer Candy: The killer candy found in King Tut's tomb
Apr 28, 2026
Breathing Fire: A Toxic Lung Emergency
Apr 14, 2026
Poisoned by Paleontology: A Blowgun Poison Mystery
Mar 31, 2026
Locked In: Fever, Paralysis, and a Mystery Pill
Mar 17, 2026
The Last Supper: Did foraging topple a royal dynasty?
Feb 24, 2026
The Quiet Baby: An infant poisoned, an antidote from the serum of scientists
Feb 11, 2026
Sublimation: Death in a sealed room
Jan 28, 2026
Sweet: Ancient biological weapon. Modern aphrodisiac.
Jan 14, 2026
Hot Water: When bath salts become deadly
Dec 09, 2025
Fermentation: The Mysterious Blood Alcohol Level
Nov 26, 2025
Fumigation: A Pesticide Poisoning Mystery
Nov 11, 2025
Bad Advice: When a Chatbot Recommends a Poison
Oct 28, 2025
Adulteration: The New Fentanyl Contaminant
Oct 14, 2025
Blue Mood, Part 2: A drug-drug interaction that changed medicine
Sep 30, 2025
Blue Mood, Part 1: What the wet dog shakes have to do with humans
Sep 16, 2025
Pick Your Poison Trailer
Sep 09, 2025
Abyssinian Tea: A Little-Known Global Drug Mystery
Aug 26, 2025
Fresh Air: When the Antidote Becomes Dangerous
Aug 12, 2025
Hemorrhage, Part 2: The Dictator Who Feared His Doctors
Jul 29, 2025
Hemorrhage, Part 1: Cocaine, Rat Poison, and a Medical Mystery
Jul 15, 2025
Pumped: Doping, Weight Loss, and a Drug-Test Mystery
Jun 25, 2025
Hitchhiker: The $40-Million a gallon Animal Toxin
Jun 11, 2025
Sudden Death: The very lethal toxin Treated with Vitamins
May 28, 2025
Hooch: Prison brew and nature's most potent poison.
May 13, 2025
Bitter Brew: The Amazonian Plant Medicine Mystery
Apr 30, 2025
Something Stinks: A Seafood Poisoning Mystery
Apr 16, 2025
Decay, Part 2: Glowing Bones and Radioactive Murder
Mar 26, 2025
Decay, Part 1: A scientist's fatal exposure and a TSA-flagged treatment
Mar 11, 2025
Burn: The Poison That Causes Excruciating Pain
Feb 26, 2025
Arctic: The Explorer’s Diet That Turned Toxic
Feb 12, 2025
Bitten: When the Antidote Is More Dangerous Than the Bite
Jan 28, 2025
Hangover: The January Emergency Doctors Dread
Jan 14, 2025
Blizzard: The Silent Killer in Winter Storms
Dec 12, 2024
Winter Holiday Special: Mistletoe, Snow Spray, and Hidden Hazards
Nov 26, 2024
Amnesia: The Sea-Lion Toxin That Affects Humans
Nov 13, 2024
Out of This World: The Party Drug Hiding in Grocery Stores
Oct 29, 2024
Halloween Haunted House: A Toxic Threat in the Fog
Oct 09, 2024
Bad Seed: Poisonous Jewelry and a Cold War Assassination
Sep 30, 2024
Hazardous Hike: Ancient execution poison found on hiking trails.
Sep 10, 2024
Pill Paradox: A common pain reliever with an antidote sketched on a cocktail napkin
Aug 28, 2024
Temptation: A neglected tropical disease killing 100,000 a year
Aug 14, 2024
Murder and Medicine, Part 2: The Murder case that launched modern forensic toxicology
Jul 31, 2024
Murder and Medicine, Part 1: The King of Poisons
Jul 09, 2024
Electric: A Festival Drug Causing brain swelling
Jun 26, 2024
Knockdown: The Poison That Kills Rescuers
Jun 12, 2024
Miasma: The Hidden Causes of Toxic Lung Injury
May 29, 2024
Rivalry Gone Awry: Seizures in the Kindergarten Wars
May 15, 2024
Fire in the Rain: Poison, Witch Trials, and Hallucinations
May 01, 2024
Perilous Waters: The World’s Most Venomous Animal
Apr 16, 2024
Therapeutic Misadventures: A medical misadventure linked to Kafka and Rasputin
Mar 28, 2024
Culinary Catastrophe: Agatha Christie’s Performance-Enhancing Poison
Mar 14, 2024
Gas Station Herbals: The Leaf That Mimics an Opioid Overdose
Feb 28, 2024
Desensitized: The Cough-Drop Drug That Can Stop the Heart
Feb 14, 2024
Explosive Heat: The Weight-Loss Drug Used in Explosives
Jan 31, 2024
Nobody Home: The Anesthetic Linked to a Murder Conviction
Jan 10, 2024
Poisonous Panacea: The Toxic Plant Used to Treat the Disease of Kings
Dec 13, 2023
White Lightning: Prohibition-era poison still found in prison
Nov 29, 2023
Deadly Delivery: The Hidden World of Drug Smuggling
Nov 14, 2023
Mad as a Hatter: The poison behind “mad as hatter: and a presidential assassin's death.
Oct 25, 2023
Loco: Madness, Witchcraft, and a New Antidote
Oct 11, 2023
Deadly Breath: Toxin used by teens That Causes Sudden Death
Sep 14, 2023
The Hollywood Shaman: Celebrity-endorsed frog toxin
Aug 23, 2023
The New Guy: A Russian Nerve-Agent Mystery
Aug 05, 2023
Three Little Steps: Rodenticides, Chemical Weapons, and Murder
Jul 19, 2023
The Hazardous Holiday: A Poison More Potent Than Cyanide
Jul 05, 2023
The Grim Reaper: Overdose, Antidotes, and a Flesh-Eating Adulterant
Jun 21, 2023
Poison Gas: The Moscow Theater Hostage Crisis
Jun 07, 2023
Black-Market Butt Lifts: A Deadly Cosmetic-Injection Mystery
May 24, 2023
Love Hurts: Aphrodisiacs, Toad Toxins, and a Failing Heart
May 09, 2023
The Poisoner’s Poison: Murder, Pigment, and an Unusual Antidote
May 09, 2023
Toxic Tea: Werewolves, Poison Arrows, and Medicine
May 09, 2023