The Poison Lab
Episode #5- Toxicologists vs The Internet (#1) With Guest Dr. Matthew Stanton PharmD, DABAT
Episode Summary
In this episode Ryan Is joined by a special guest Dr. Matthew Stanton PharmD, BCPS, DABAT, an emergency medicine pharmacist and clinical toxicologist. Ryan and Matt take turns answering questions from reddit.com/r/askdrugs (the internet, really, really needs a toxicologist) and finally they challenge each others toxic sleuthing by presenting some cases of poisoning and allowing the other to try to determine the toxin responsible.
Episode Notes
- Article authored by Ryan and Matt regarding potential toxicity of vitamin e acetate in THC vape cartridges
- https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32451600/
- https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33528766/
- News article about the man arrested 1 floor below our Host where co-author of above paper is quouted. for selling vape cartridges
- https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/2019/08/29/vaping-deaths-thc-cartridges-investigated-wisconsin-cases/2154799001/
- False Positive for Fentanyl
- https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25248490/
- Serotonin syndrome
- Great review of serotonin syndrome
- https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15784664/
- LSD Partial agonism at 5HT2A
- https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8819525/
- Review containing 5HT2A binding affinity for pyschoactive compounds
- https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27216487/
- Discussion of some cases of LSD related deaths
- https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29408722/
- Review of risk of serotonin syndrome with stimulant compounds
- https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17620161/
- Case report of methamphetamine serotonin syndrome
- https://www.longdom.org/open-access/serotonin-syndrome-following-single-ingestion-of-high-dose-methamphetamine-2161-0495.1000111.pdf
- Cases
- Review of toxicity from poison case 1
- https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21739343/
- Review of methemoglobinemia (case)
- https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22024786/
- Review of case 3 poison toxicity
- https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21731786/
- Case report of case 4 poisoning
- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC130147/