Is it impossible for any poison to kill a person in less than 2 minutes?

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@am77494

Exposure to H2S above 1000ppm results in near instant death. cite : https://www.osha.gov/SLTC/hydrogensulfide/hazards.html

Wow, did not realize that rotten eggs are so deadly!

[hotflungwok]

Doesn’t purified nicotine kill in seconds?

[Ranchoth]

…how 'bout Russell’s Viper venom or 99% Hydrogen Peroxide injected directly into the Carotid Artery?

Or a few drops of Chlorine Trifluoride, rubbed gingerly into the scalp?

[obbn]

@LSLGuy

Not doubting your story, but do you recall the dose rate for that patch? You typo’d the critical sentence above, but I suspect you were saying you were already opiate-experienced. IME, your reaction is atypical although my experience is pretty limited.

One thing for sure: there’s no effective treatment for fentanyl overdose & it *is *heavily warned as being stupid-dangerous for kids, dogs, and the incompetent.

The first patch I was on was I believe a 25. This was the smallest dose patch available. Prior to that I was only taking vicodin, so while I was opiod tolerant I was barely so as vicoden is pretty mild stuff. Ten years on I regularly take 120mg of er morphine and 60mg oxycodone per day. If I was given the fentynal for the first time today I doubt I would have gotten sick like I did then. I’m so happy to not be using the fentynal any longer. While it worked great for the pain it scared me. There is a very fine line between pain relief and overdose with it, not to mention I was always worried about a patch coming into contact with someone.

[Machine_Elf]

@Disheavel

I am going to put in fentanyl as being one of the fastest acting- the Russians (un?)successfully used it in the Chechan hostage crisis to incapicitate the hostage takers faster than they could realize what was happening. However, 15% of the people including hostages died from it.

I think you’re thinking of the Moscow Theater hostage crisis, though it was never declared for certain what chemical was used to incapacitate the terrorists.