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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...