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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...