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.
This week on Century of Lies: Debunking Myths About Meth - Part one of my
interview with Claire Zagorski, a harm reduction activist, paramedic,
graduate research assistant in translational science at the University of
Texas College of Pharmacy, and adjunct faculty at the Ph...
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This week on Century of Lies: Undoing Drugs Pt 2 - A conversation with
award-winning journalist and best-selling author Maia Szalavitz whose most
recent book Undoing Drugs: The Untold Story of Harm Reduction and the Future
of Addiction has just been released in paperback. P...
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This week on Century of Lies: Undoing Drugs Pt 1 - A conversation with
award-winning journalist and best-selling author Maia Szalavitz whose most
recent book Undoing Drugs: The Untold Story of Harm Reduction and the Future
of Addiction has just been released in paperback.
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This week on Century of Lies: Cost barriers and naloxone availability – a
conversation with Evan Peet, PhD, an economist at the RAND Corporation, a
professor at Pardee RAND Graduate School, and one of the co-authors of an
article published August 19 in JAMA Health Forum ent...
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This week on Century of Lies: International Overdose Awareness Day is August
31. We talk with Haven Wheelock, Drug Users Health Services Program
Supervisor at Outside In in Portland, Oregon. Plus, we hear from Professor
Leo Beletsky with Northeastern University School of La...
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This week on Century of Lies: California Senate Bill 57, sponsored by Sen.
Scott Wiener, legislation that would allow some jurisdictions to authorize
the establishment of supervised consumption sites, goes to the desk of
Governor Gavin Newsom; the Senate Judiciary Committee...
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This week on Century of Lies: Decriminalization and human rights. Brendan
Minish, board member of Crain, an Irish organization that aims to combat
misinformation around cannabis and advocates for drug law reform, harm
reduction, and drug education, and Doctor Nuno Capaz, di...
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This week on Century of Lies: Marcos, Duterte, the ICC, and the Philippine
Drug War. We hear from Justine Balane, human rights activist in the
Philippines; Ruben Carranza, International Center for Transitional Justice;
human rights activist and former Italian Senator Marco ...
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This week on Century of Lies: Aligning drug policies with human rights. We
hear from Elina Steinerte, Member of the UN Working Group on Arbitrary
Detention; Judy Chang, Executive Director of the International Network of
People Who Use Drugs and Melissa Upreti, Chairperson o...
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This week on Century of Lies: Part two of my conversation with Judy Chang,
Executive Director of the International Network of People Who Use Drugs
(INPUD); plus, we talk with Tera Hurst, Executive Director of the Oregon
Health Justice Recovery Alliance, about decriminalizat...
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