The link to the article:
http://www.straightdope.com/columns/050218.html
Seems to be missing from the home page.
Have we not been feeding the hamsters? They might be eating links out of desperation.
What I’d like to know is how the efficacy of such an injection compares in speed and intensity to various bites/stings/etc. from the natural word:
Coral snakes/Cobras/Bushmaster*
Gila monsters
Stonefish
Poisonous spiders
Scorpions
Various poisonous insects
Jellyfish/Portuguese man o’war
Bees (if victim is allergic)
Vampire bats
Nettles/poison ivy, oak, sumac/other poisonous plants
*I omitted “pit viper” snakes since their venom attacks the circulatory system while the other snakes’ venom attacks the nervous system.
Duckbill platypus
Embarrassingly, I think if I’d paid more attention when my son watched Most Extreme Venom on Animal Planet, I could answer that one in detail! 
Interesting about length of time between injection and sedation. I am one of those who will nod out almost immediately. Drugs other than sedatives have a similar response time.
I know the bee one because my goddaughter is allergic. IIRC, death from anaphalactic shock can occur in less than 5 minutes in some people. In her case, she made it to a clinic for an epi in about 25 minutes and was fine afterwards.
But it was rather close.
I would like to congratulate Cecil on this extract:
‘assuming Quentin Tarantino films aren’t the primary instructional tool for ER physicians…’
I’m not going to ask for a cite 
, because a) I think it’s a safe assumption and b) if it’s not, I’m really scared!
The new Column comes out on Friday, roughly. I can it earlier in the READER if I’m in downtown Chicago Thursday afternoon, and a few other local papers carry it earlier. The email to the mailing list usually goes out early Friday morning, and the new Column usually gets posted on the website early Friday morning. The definition of “early” may vary.
So, often you’ll have access to the column through the email before it’s posted on the website. I’m assuming that’s what happened here.
Is this the first column where Cecil has profanity in his answer? I can’t remember another of his columns with swearing in it.
You mean the “fucking”? It was a direct quotation from the movie. Cecil has used the word “fuck” and variations of it (in quotation marks) in the columns What’s the origin of the “F” word? and Do other languages have obscenities like those of English? and Was Martin Luther King, Jr. a plagiarist?
That’s a real bummer 
FTR, when I had my dog (approx. 70 lbs.) put to sleep, it took only ten seconds or so for an injection into her leg to be effective.
While the Dope was on AOL, everything had to be cleaned up. Most of the electronic versions of old columns date from this period, and nobody’s bothered to go back and unclean them. For instance, in the column Why is fecal matter brown?, the questioner didn’t actually say “fecal matter”.
To ask a question regarding the actual column: Did any truth ever get established regarding this incident, where a Russian woman was apparently caught on camera being sedated by an injection?
I’m sad to see a missed opportunity to give credit where due… The adrenaline-to-the-heart technique from Pulp Fiction was introduced by (that is to say lifted from) Steven Prince in Martin Scorsese’s American Boy