BBC 3 Thurs 9pm - How ecstasy Works 13/1/2011

[Chemical Samile]

Worst effects I ever got off MDMA was pulling a fit bird at the rave and not being able to come in her face later!
Really started my comedown that

Hahaha, anitspaffage

 

[andgy2777]

I dont see how a picture of the guy DJ'ing is evidence of his drug use though.

His eyes were like saucers tho - you could tell he was smashed!

 

[ecsplosiv]

Well I just can't fucking believe this but you know this program was a joint discovery/bbc production.

Look at the discovery version of the same program (same CGI graphics etc) from the Australian forum "DRUGGED: High on Ecstacy (Tv) Nat geo" -- http://www.bluelight.ru/vb/showthread.php?t=549142

Over the past 30 years ecstasy has become one of the world's most notorious drugs. No other illegal substance has had the same effect on fashion, music and how we party. This film follows two recreational ecstasy users over one night and, using computer graphics, journeys inside the body and the brain to explore how the drug creates its highs and its lows. With access to cutting edge research at the University of Chicago we find out how ecstasy creates empathy in the user and how this could one day lead to the drug being used as a life saving prescription medicine for use in therapy. Whilst ecstasy is the perfect high for some, there are those for whom ecstasy is agony - this film tells their story too: a young woman whose use of the drug ended her up in the psychiatric ward, a 17-year-old whose ecstasy use landed her in a hospital, and a mother whose son died from overheating after taking ecstasy. Killer chemical or the ultimate feel good high, this is the inside story of how ecstasy works.

Read more: http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/series/drugged/5508/Overview#ixzz1B0Am2cLl

2-Night Special
Starts JAN 16 on Nation Geographic Channel

I posted on that thread:

Hey guys -- I am from EADD and from the UK. I just watched the NatGeo program you linked and wanted to say this:

HOLY FUCK

It uses the same graphics as the BBC3 program (was it made by the same company "pioneer productions"??!)

While our UK version was pretty much spot-on and quite informative (see http://www.bluelight.ru/vb/showthread.php?t=549006), the version linked by the OP is full of sensationalist utter fucking NONSENSE! (I just watched the 5 min clip on the web site). Made me physically sick watching it. We were giving credit to the production company for NOT doing this, and they even promised they WOULDNT when they tried to recruit people from our forum to do the bloody program!

So it seems the same production company still toes the anti-drug propaganda line to be shown in countries that are less informed about the harms of MDMA?!

<completley bemused>

 

[nomy]

^^good spot mate. So the truth is erm....flexible? Why am I not surprised?

 

[dee_dee]

to be fair, i think in australia, theyve had lots of problems with the pmas being present in the pills assumed to be mdma, and quite a few deaths.

i appreciate the programme should only be about and reflect mdma, but im guessing maybe this is why they have a slightly different view of things to us.

i may be wrong