{"id":550,"date":"2012-10-05T09:32:19","date_gmt":"2012-10-05T09:32:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/?p=550"},"modified":"2012-10-05T09:32:19","modified_gmt":"2012-10-05T09:32:19","slug":"drugs-on-tv-uks-controversial-ecstasy-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/?p=550","title":{"rendered":"Drugs on TV: UK&#8217;s controversial ecstasy trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div id=\"attachment_552\" style=\"width: 201px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/images.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-552\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/images.jpeg\" alt=\"\" title=\"C4 Drugs Live\" width=\"191\" height=\"264\" class=\"size-full wp-image-552\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-552\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Channel 4&#039;s presenter John Snow hosted the controversial show<\/p><\/div>Last week UK television audiences could watch celebrities taking hard drugs on live television. But this was not the latest in reality shows &#8211; it was part of a serious scientific trial of the drug MDMA &#8211; more commonly known as ecstasy. British Channel 4 invited 25 volunteers to take the drug while having their brains scanned. Among them were a well-known actor, an ex-member of parliament and the editor of a science magazine. But the TV show has proven nearly as controversial as the drug itself. Here&#8217;s my report for Inside Europe on Deutsche Welle Radio:<\/p>\n<div class=\"ab-player\" data-boourl=\"http:\/\/audioboo.fm\/boos\/991829-uk-s-live-tv-drugs-trial\/embed\"><a href=\"http:\/\/audioboo.fm\/boos\/991829-uk-s-live-tv-drugs-trial\">listen to &#x2018;UK&#x27;s live TV drugs trial&#x2019; on Audioboo<\/a><\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\">(function() { var po = document.createElement(\"script\"); po.type = \"text\/javascript\"; po.async = true; po.src = \"http:\/\/d15mj6e6qmt1na.cloudfront.net\/assets\/embed.js\"; var s = document.getElementsByTagName(\"script\")[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(po, s); })();<\/script> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week UK television audiences could watch celebrities taking hard drugs on live television. But this was not the latest in reality shows &#8211; it was part of a serious scientific trial of the drug MDMA &#8211; more commonly known as ecstasy. British Channel 4 invited 25 volunteers to take the drug while having their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=550"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":553,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550\/revisions\/553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}