Warning: Contains references to drug taking, melancholy and suicide.
The social gathering drug ecstasy is normally related to packed nightclubs and panicked politicians speaking concerning the risks concerned in taking it.
However, a former head of the UK’s armed forces believes the drug’s energetic ingredient, referred to as MDMA, may very well be key to treating veterans affected by post-traumatic stress dysfunction.
General Sir Nick Carter is now calling on the federal government to chill out restrictions with a view to scale back the crippling price of medical trials. What proof is there to counsel this remedy may very well be efficient and what’s been the response from the few former troopers who’ve benefitted thus far?
Niall is joined by Sky’s science correspondent Thomas Moore.
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