Century Of Lies is a weekly half-hour show focused on drug policy reform and the failed war on drugs. The show explores public health, criminal justice, social justice, and other policies related to drugs in the US and abroad, and includes news reports, commentary, interviews, and other recorded segments. Century of Lies is a production of the Drug Truth Network and is syndicated via the Pacifica Foundation Radio Network.
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This week on Century of Lies: Social Responses for Women Who Use Drugs.
The European Union Drugs Agency in collaboration with the Cooperation
Programme between Latin America, the Caribbean and the European Union on drug
policies recently held a webinar entitled Health and s...
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This week on Century of Lies: State of the Global Drug War 2024.
The United Nations Commission on Narcotic Drugs held a set of thematic
discussions November 12 through 14. On this edition of Century hear from
Chloe Carpentier, Chief of the Research and Knowledge Production ...
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This week on Century of Lies: Descheduling and Decolonizing Coca.
The Commission on Narcotic Drugs just completed a set of intersessional
meetings in Vienna, Austria, which were held November 12 through 14. One of
the topics under discussion was the international scheduling...
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This week on Century of Lies: Decriminalizing and Decolonizing Coca.
The nations of Colombia and Bolivia held an event at the United Nations in
New York on November Seventh to challenge the negative connotation attributed
to the coca plant. The event was entitled "Beyond De...
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This week on Century of Lies: New York State Harm Reduction Association 2024
Conference Highlights.
On this edition of Century we feature highlights from the New York State Harm
Reduction Association’s annual conference, which was held October
Twenty-First and Twenty-Secon...
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This week on Century of Lies: The Global State of Harm Reduction.
On Tuesday October 29, Harm Reduction International released its new report
entitled The Global State of Harm Reduction 2024. HRI held a news conference
to announce the release and discuss their findings.
We...
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This week on Century of Lies: Civilly Disobedient.
Dana Larsen is a political activist, business owner, and drug policy reform
movement leader located in Vancouver, BC. On Thursday October, 17, Dana’s
Mushroom Dispensary and Microdose Cafe in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside w...
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This week on Century of Lies: Respecting the Rights and Dignity of People Who
Use Drugs.
From 2020 until the arrests in 2023, the Drug User Liberation Front provided
a safe supply of drugs to a small number of people who use drugs in that part
of northern Abya Yala known ...
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This week on Century of Lies: Oregon Post-Recrim: Deflection and Diversion.
Loyal listeners will recall that my home state of Oregon recently took a big
step backwards in drug policy by recriminalizing the simple possession of
small amounts of some drugs. Some friends have ...
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This week on Century of Lies: The Courage To Do What Works.
Professor Sir John Strang, MD, is a clinical academic and one of the
world’s leading addictions researchers. He was Principal Investigator in
the Randomised Injectable Opiate Treatment Trial in the UK, which compar...
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