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S3 Professor David Nutt: ‘If anyone ever criticises or comments on your drinking, take it seriously'

How Do You Cope? …with Elis and John

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Do Horse Riding and Ecstasy Really Work?

After the success of the ecstasy committee, I was then asked to come in and basically guide the major, the full counsel, the advisory council on the misuse of drugs. And I led the scientific committee of that for nine years before writing my famous paper on horse riding in ecstasy. In fact, all it did was make many, many people very, very angry because most people don't want to believe that horse riding is harmful even though there's hundreds of people he did. But if you look at the data quite into some detail, it's pretty clear that you're more likely to harm yourself taking horse riding than you are to taking ecstasy,. particularly if you go jumping. We know more about

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