It was an upstate chicken, most likely, that had come to town just for the hell of it, but its life cycle — born elsewhere, arrived in hope, lived in cramped quarters, ended its New York existence violently and unexpectedly at the hands of someone with a fatal amount of money — seemed to make its life local enough to qualify.
It's a very dangerous combination of people not knowing what they're taking, and not knowing how much is a fatal amount or not.
If you're not into that and basically can't be arsed, it would be prescient to take a fatal amount of alcohol with you, so you can get pissed and die quickly, just in case it all goes wrong and you have to watch your family being eaten by cannibals while trying to trade some old cigarettes for a bite of a Lion bar.
All three isomers are very toxic, and in high concentrations they can be absorbed in fatal amounts through the skin.
The inquest heard that as well as the heroin, toxic to fatal amounts of methamphetamine and traces of cannabis were found in her system.
Soon after the Estes indictments, however, Mr. Freeman, the agriculture secretary, disclosed that a key investigator on the case, Henry Marshall, had been found dead in Texas — bludgeoned on the head, with nearly fatal amounts of carbon monoxide in his bloodstream and five chest wounds from a single-shot bolt-action rifle.
Few dogs eat fatal amounts of chocolate, but smaller doses can still cause seizures and other symptoms.
Until 2014 the vast majority of these deaths were caused by fentanyl alone, usually people buying the drug on the dark web and taking fatal amounts.
It's also why when we found out that Steve Ludwin, 46, had been sat injecting himself with fatal amounts of the stuff in his London flat for 20 years, it would be worth going to meet him.
Privately milking an array of deadly snakes including rattlesnakes, monocled cobras, and a few casual vipers thrown in to the mix, Steve has been injecting what would for any normal human be fatal amounts venom into his body since the late 80s.
Today on City, VICE takes a look at the improbable life of Steve Ludwin, who has been injecting what would for any normal human be fatal amounts of snake venom into his body since the late 80s.The basic principle laid out by pioneer herpetologist, Bill Haast, who died last year at the age of 100, is that regular exposure to the venom results in the body developing an immunity.
