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Death of Leah Betts

Death of Leah Betts

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Sep 16, 2026

Mark O'NeillHOST
20:51
He does.
Mark O'NeillHOST
20:51
He brings up, I was going to say Leah Betts, but that's the girl that died from him.
Mark O'NeillHOST
20:59
An ecstasy overdose.
Eddie EdwardsHOST
21:00
Yeah, she went to...
Mark O'NeillHOST
21:10
Really? Yeah.
Mark O'NeillHOST
21:12
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.
Mark O'NeillHOST
21:28
If you bring up Leah Betts, they will immediately know who that is.
Eddie EdwardsHOST
21:30
Yeah, Leah Betts was to Ecstasy what the satanic panic was to Dungeons & Dragons.
Jimmy ThistleHOST
21:19
That really did.
Jimmy ThistleHOST
21:20
Ecstasy even scared me to begin with because of the whole Leah Betts thing during the 90s.
Jimmy ThistleHOST
21:25
And then Friends started doing it and I guess the music kind of took over.
Jimmy ThistleHOST
21:28
And I did, but I was like you, I was terrified of these things.
Neil WoodsGUEST
35:20
The number we should be worried about is the number of people using drugs problematically.
Neil WoodsGUEST
35:24
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.
Neil WoodsGUEST
35:38
But Leah Betts died from poor advice drinking too much water, you know, from the wrong harm reduction advice.
Neil WoodsGUEST
35:43
And most of the deaths have been because it's not regulated.
Neil WoodsGUEST
35:47
A very close friend of mine, Anne-Marie Coburn, she lost her 15-year-old daughter to an accidental overdose of MDMA.

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