Today, you’re most likely to find strychnine in rat poison — although some people don’t use it because it’s too cruel. You can also find it in ghoulish detective stories.

The Government of Alberta is calling for strychnine to be unbanned for use on Richardson's ground squirrels, commonly ...

Symptoms of rat poison ingestion include internal bleeding, organ failure, paralysis, ... There are no drugs to reverse the effects of non-anticoagulant rat poisons like bromethalin, strychnine, ...

Poison This Rat Apr 28, 2025, 7:52 AM Edit. ... I sat staring at the lake and wished I could time travel back to World War II with a bottle of strychnine pills and have access to a Coca ...

She had taken 100 one-thirtieth grain (0.002 gm.) strychnine sulphate tablets at 1 p. m. after a heavy meal. . . . ... This is the first case of strychnine poisoning treated with sodium amytal.” ...

Strychnine: can be extracted from the seeds of the nux vomica tree, ... in some countries it has been available as rat poison – it has been more widely used as an agent of assassination.

Investigators discovered strychnine, a rat poison, in Megan’s system. The sheriff wrote on Facebook that the case is still open after six years and hundreds of leads and interviews.

Health Canada says it plans to completely ban a powerful poison used to control predators after completing public consultations on use of strychnine. “All uses of strychnine are cancelled ...

Health Canada had previously de-listed strychnine as a rodenticide, largely over the poison’s tendency to linger in the carcasses of the gophers, ground squirrels and rats typically targeted by ...