Lethal Dose Podcast Episode 54: Caffeine

Barclay, E. (2011). Four Loko, 11 Young People and a Busy Emergency Room. NPR. Retrieved 01 Apr 2024, from https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2011/08/04/138932012/four-loko-11-young-people-and-a-busy-emergency-room Benjamin, L. T., Rogers, A. M., & Rosenbaum, A. (1991). Coca-Cola, caffeine, and mental deficiency: Harry Hollingworth and the Chattanooga trial of 1911. J Hist Behav Sci, 27, 42-55. Binday, B. (2023). Penn student Sarah

My Experience with Antidepressant Withdrawal Syndrome

I am, admittedly, not very good at keeping up with social media in any capacity. The pages for the Lethal Dose Podcast are kept barely alive by the ability to schedule posts on Instagram and because my co-host, Venus, maintains the TikTok account. I’m not even sure if my personal or fiction author TikTok accounts

Lethal Dose Podcast Episode 49: Children’s Cold Medicine

Two siblings were found dead in their Colorado home in 2002, but was their death an accident from misreading a cold syrup label, or was it homicide? Mistakes with the toxicology made interpreting the situation much more difficult in this case.

Lethal Dose Episode 43: Mercury Pt. 1 Minamata Disease

About Us. (2021).  Minamata Convention on Mercury. Retrieved 24 Jul 2023 from https://mercuryconvention.org/en/about Allchin, D. The Poisoning of Minamata. The SHiPS Teachers’ Network. Retrieved 06 Jul 2023 from https://web.archive.org/web/20110226140412/http://www1.umn.edu/ships/ethics/minamata.htm Chapter 4 – Minamata Disease. (1992). In J. Ui (Ed.), Industrial Pollution in Japan. United Nations University Press. https://archive.unu.edu/unupress/unupbooks/uu35ie/uu35ie0c.htm#i.%20the%20nippon%20chisso%20company:%20beginnings Eto, K., Marumoto, M., & Takeya, M.

References for Lethal Dose Episode 37: PFAS Pt. 3 Forever Chemicals

About Red Hill Fuel Releases. (2023).  United States Environmental Protection Agency. https://www.epa.gov/red-hill/about-red-hill-fuel-releases Akhtar, A. (2022). 5 toxic chemicals used in fast fashion clothing, and how they can affect your immune system. Insider. Retrieved 16 Feb 2023, from https://www.insider.com/toxic-chemicals-in-shein-and-other-fast-fashion-clothing-2022-8 Allen, J. G. (2018). These toxic chemicals are everywhere – even in your body. And they won’t

References for Episode 36: PFAS Pt. 2 Do the Study After We Are Sued

Barboza, D. (2000a, 17 May 2000). 3M Says It Will Stop Making Scotchgard. The New York Times. Barboza, D. (2000b, 19 May 2000). E.P.A. Says It Pressed 3M for Action on Scotchgard Chemical. The New York Times. Bartlett v. E. I. Du Pont de Nemours & Co.,  (United States District Court Southern District of Ohio

Lethal Dose Podcast Episode 35: PFAS Pt. 1 Decades of Deceit

3M Brand Fluorochemical Surfactants. (1963). https://www.ag.state.mn.us/Office/Cases/3M/docs/PTX/PTX1042.pdf April 6, 1938: Discovery of Teflon. (2021). APSNews, 30(4). Retrieved 11 Jan 2023, from https://www.aps.org/publications/apsnews/202104/history.cfm Belisle, J. (1976). Determination and Characterization of Trace Fluorochemicals. In H. E. Freier, D. F. Hagen, J. E. Long, B. W. Nippoldt, J. A. Pendergrass, R. A. Prokop, F. A. Ubel, & D. G.

Give It a Rest

I have a pretty particular sense of humor. I can’t stand cringe or secondary embarrassment, toilet humor isn’t funny to me, and I have little tolerance for most pranks. I can be a buzz kill and I’m aware of that. Even so, I understand that sometimes humor is found in the ridiculous and the absurd.

Forbidden snacks of the east coast

Last month, the USDA began its annual distribution of oral rabies vaccine bait in the eastern United States in an effort to prevent the spread of the disease into less intensely affected areas. The fishmeal-coated vaccine cubes were dropped by helicopter and vehicles were spread throughout Maine, West Virginia, and Pennsylvania in August. More vaccines

Whipped Into a Frenzy

It’s mythbusting time. For some reason, there’s a rumor going around right now, end of summer 2022, that it is illegal for anyone under 21 to buy whipped cream in the state of New York. The rational behind this is that lawmakers are trying to make it harder for kids to get high on nitrous