Molly - Scary Drug or Promising Therapy?

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Education, Science, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 16 November 2017

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Molly, Ecstasy, MDMA... whatever you want to call it, it's all the same thing. This week, we’re turning up the bass and checking out what does it do to your brain. Is it bad for you? Could it be a potential medicine? To find out, we talk to public health researcher Prof. Joseph Palamar, DEA special agent James Hunt, and neuroscientist Prof. Harriet de Witt. Check out the full transcript here: http://bit.ly/2YEl1V2 Selected reading:Harriet’s paper on MDMA and feelings of rejectionJoseph’s paper on club kid hairThis big British report on the risks of ecstasy Credits: This episode was produced by Heather Rogers, Wendy Zukerman, Shruti Ravindran and Rose Rimler. Our senior producer is Kaitlyn Sawrey. Edited by Blythe Terrell. Fact checking by Michelle Harris, Rose Rimler and Ben Kuebrich. Sound design by Martin Peralta and Haley Shaw. Music written by Bobby Lord. An extra thanks to Johnny Dynell, Jesse Rudoy, Brian Earp, Prof. Jerrold S. Meyer, Prof. Niamh Nic Daéid and Dr. Carl Roberts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Wendy Zuckerman and you're listening to Science Versus from Gimlett Media.
0:07.4	This is the show that pits facts against?
0:11.2	Yes, grab your chewing gum and your glow sticks.
0:16.8	On today's show, ecstasy.
0:18.8	E, x, molly, MDMA.
0:21.4	Whatever you want to call it, whatever you've been told, they're actually all the same thing.
0:26.8	Yep, molly is the same as ecstasy, which is the chemical MDMA.
0:31.4	And that's what we're talking about here today.
0:34.4	The party drug, MDMA, has been illegal in the US since 1985.
0:39.6	But a small group of researchers now want to use this drug as medicine.
0:44.4	They're looking into whether it can help people with post-traumatic stress disorder, autism,
0:49.4	anxiety at the end of people's lives, and even to help during therapy.
0:54.6	For all those people who have taken MDMA recreationally,
0:58.2	that's more than 18 million Americans,
1:01.0	and even for all their mates who haven't tried it, it does raise the question.
1:07.2	Is MDMA as scary as we've been told it is?
1:11.0	Hello.
1:12.2	Joseph Palema was a club kid in New York City in the late 1990s and early 2000s.
1:20.0	Reporter Heather Rogers and I went to chat with him in Manhattan.
1:23.4	My prime year was probably 2000.
1:26.1	I mean, I never missed a week at Soundfactor,
1:28.0	except the week of 9-11, where clubs were shut down.
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