Death of Leah Betts
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Search complete. 6 mentions across 3 episodes found for "Death of Leah Betts".
Sep 16, 2026
Episode 068: Hollow Pursuits

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20:51Mark O'NeillHOST
He does.
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20:51Mark O'NeillHOST
He brings up, I was going to say Leah Betts, but that's the girl that died from him.
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20:59Mark O'NeillHOST
An ecstasy overdose.
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21:00Eddie EdwardsHOST
Yeah, she went to...
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21:10Mark O'NeillHOST
Really? Yeah.
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21:12Mark O'NeillHOST
That name, like, if you meet anyone, any sort of mid-aged millennial who went to a state school in the UK, if you bring up the name, especially people who have... maybe partied in their 20s.
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21:28Mark O'NeillHOST
If you bring up Leah Betts, they will immediately know who that is.
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21:30Eddie EdwardsHOST
Yeah, Leah Betts was to Ecstasy what the satanic panic was to Dungeons & Dragons.
I Was the Queen of Holistic Living — Coconut Oil, Soap Nuts, Natural Everything — & Alcohol Was the Elephant in the Room I Stepped Around for 15 Years
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21:19Jimmy ThistleHOST
That really did.
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21:20Jimmy ThistleHOST
Ecstasy even scared me to begin with because of the whole Leah Betts thing during the 90s.
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21:25Jimmy ThistleHOST
And then Friends started doing it and I guess the music kind of took over.
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21:28Jimmy ThistleHOST
And I did, but I was like you, I was terrified of these things.
Legalisation: Has The War On Drugs Failed? (Neil Woods, ex-police officer)
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35:20Neil WoodsGUEST
The number we should be worried about is the number of people using drugs problematically.
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35:24Neil WoodsGUEST
And of course, if you have different options for our society, for example, MDMA, You know, we're sold this idea that MDMA is so dangerous, and tragically, people have died like Leah Betts, and that's awful.
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35:38Neil WoodsGUEST
But Leah Betts died from poor advice drinking too much water, you know, from the wrong harm reduction advice.
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35:43Neil WoodsGUEST
And most of the deaths have been because it's not regulated.
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35:47Neil WoodsGUEST
A very close friend of mine, Anne-Marie Coburn, she lost her 15-year-old daughter to an accidental overdose of MDMA.