Helen Brown reviews Drugs Live: the Ecstasy Trial, Channel 4's experiment in which volunteers, including actor Keith Allen and novelist Lionel Shriver took MDMA to see its effect on the brain. Helen ...

Next week Professor David Nutt will test the effects of MDMA – otherwise known as ecstasy – on a number of volunteers live on TV in a research project funded by Channel 4. Julia Manning, chief ...

Half a million people take ecstasy every week in Britain and Channel 4 provided an opportunity on Wednesday to see some of them in Drugs Live: The Ecstasy Trial. First things first: nobody took drugs ...

An experiment in which volunteers take the dance drug Ecstasy is to be screened on Channel 4 in a first for British television. Volunteers will take MDMA, the pure form of Class A drug, as part of the ...

A female vicar is set to spark outrage by taking ecstasy on a controversial new Channel 4 programme about drugs. The working minister will be joined in the experiment by award-winning author Lionel ...

Frequent use of ecstasy causes memory problems, according to a new study into the effects of the drug. Ecstasy, one of the most widely used illegal drugs in the UK, causes users difficulty learning ...

Channel 4 has been slammed for ‘dressing up’ its show Drugs Live: The Ecstasy trial, where volunteers took the party drug, as serious scientific research. Jon Snow and Dr Christian Jessen fronted the ...

Former MP Evan Harris has taken ecstasy for a Channel 4 show which will examine the effects of the class A drug. He joins previously announced names, actor Keith Allen and novelist Lionel Shriver, in ...

Channel 4 are believed to have filmed an experiment in which a vicar, former MP, ex-SAS soldier and filmmaker Keith Allen take MDMA as part of a debate show called Drugs Live: The Ecstasy Trial. Pure ...

FORMER MP Evan Harris has taken ecstasy for a Channel 4 show which will examine the effects of the class A drug. He joins previously announced names, actor Keith Allen and novelist Lionel Shriver, in ...