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Former elite forces fighter Phil Campion seemed perfect to test mind altering drugs to help army veterans – but it turned him into a "20-plus-stone ex-SAS lunatic".<\/p>\n
Phil was trained to kill by the best of the best, and spent 15 years in the British army, ending his career as a member of 22 SAS. With researchers finding that Ecstasy could work wonders for combat veterans suffering from PTSD, it made sense for Channel 4\u2019s Drugs Live to recruit \u201cBig Phil\u201d to test out the love drug.<\/p>\n
The experiment didn\u2019t go to plan. Most people who have taken moderate doses of MDMA report experiencing euphoria and a general sense of \u201cloving everyone and everything.\u201d It turned Big Phil into a wild man.<\/p>\n
After giving Phil a placebo to test that the effect wasn\u2019t purely psychological, the producers handed him a genuine Disco Biscuit. Phil told podcaster Dodge Woodall that the whole experiment was carried out under clinical conditions.<\/p>\n
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\u201cThey put you in scrubs and all that,\u201d he recalled. \u201cI looked like 10 pounds of s*** in a two-pound bag \u2013 It wasn\u2019t my best telly look, it was horrendous\u201d.<\/p>\n
Unlike the placebo pill, the genuine ecstasy \u201chorse tablet\u201d had an almost immediate effect on Phil. Within about 20 minutes, he says, his eyes were like saucers. Phil\u2019s wife Wendy, who had come along to drive him home after the experiment, told him \u201cYou are f****d\u201d.<\/p>\n
But then Phil, who was gurning like a classic Acid House casualty, started \u201cgetting a little bit agitated,\u201d especially when it was time for him to have a brain scan to test the drug\u2019s effects.<\/p>\n
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\u201cThey they put me in the brain scanner \u2013 I\u2019m all trussed up \u2013 and I called Wendy and said \u2018Wendy \u2026 these f***ers are taking the piss out of me\u2019. After the experiment, experts told Phil why the drug had made him so \u201cagitated\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cBasically, because I'm quite an aggressive person, the drug that was supposed to unlock the love was now unlocking the hatred\u201d. Wendy, who knows Phil and his ways better than most, decided it was time to have a word with the show\u2019s producers.<\/p>\n
She told them: \u201cRight you've now got a 20-plus-stone ex-SAS lunatic in a brain scanner who's pretty angry. Have you got any security?\u201d<\/p>\n
When she was told that there were no precautions in place, she added: \u201cYou better go and stand outside. I\u2019m going to try and get him out of here because he is getting f*****g angry\u201d.<\/p>\n
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\u201cThe thing was coming in waves,\u201d Phil recalled, \u201cso what I think in my own head is that they're pumping more in there \u2026 they're taking the mickey\u201d. He says he felt like he was on a rollercoaster.<\/p>\n
Wendy carefully removed the intravenous drip from the now-furious ex-SAS assassin and he was taken into a quiet room to calm down. The show\u2019s producers then asked him a few question to see what psychological effect the drug had on him.<\/p>\n
I remember one of the questions was \u2018What do you think about Wayne Rooney?\u2019 \u2013 it was a bizarre question\u201d.<\/p>\n
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Phil furiously told the questioner \u201che\u2019s an idiot, I hate him!\u201d when in reality, he says, \u201cI\u2019ve got nothing against the fella, I just hated the world\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe doctor explained to me that you've got gates in your brain. When you open them the emotions go through that gate. So this drug is designed to open up and let all the nice stuff go through the gate\u201d.<\/p>\n
But in a former SAS trooper that has been trained to resist any mood-altering chemicals, the effect was not euphoria, but panic.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s opened up another gate now the other way which is the angry gate\u2026 all this stuff's flowing into the angry gate and I\u2019m getting madder and madder.<\/p>\n
\u201cI call it \u2018Battlefield Anger\u2019 \u2013 you\u2019re in complete control of what you're doing but you have absolutely no limits on what you do to people\u201d.<\/p>\n
Thankfully, Phil has no plans to attend any raves in the hear future. <\/p>\n
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