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: Scotland Takes A Stand.
The Government of Scotland has issued a paper entitled “A Caring,
Compassionate and Human Rights Informed Drug Policy for Scotland” that
calls for a veritable revolution in drug policy including heroin treatment,
safe c...
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This week on Century of Lies: Indigenous Rights, Colonialism, and
Exploitation. We hear audio from an indigenous rights/anti-colonialism
protest that interrupted the closing ceremony of the Multidisciplinary
Association for Psychedelic Studies’ fourth Psychedelic Science co...
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This week on Century of Lies: A Citizens’ Assembly On Drugs Use.
The government of the Republic of Ireland has established a Citizens’
Assembly on Drugs Use to “consider the legislative, policy and operational
changes Ireland could make to significantly reduce the harmful i...
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This week on Century of Lies: Drug Arrests, Overdose, and Treatment. We’re
joined in conversation by Caroline A. King, MD, PhD, a first year resident in
the Yale-New Haven Emergency Medicine Residency Training Program and
co-author of a research letter entitled “Treatments ...
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This week on Century of Lies: Drug Policy, Health, and Human Rights. Host
Doug McVay is joined in conversation by Professor Jagpreet Chhatwal, PhD,
Director of the MGH Institute for Technology Assessment and an associate
professor at Harvard Medical School, and one of the c...
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This week on Century of Lies: Minnesota Approves Safe Consumption Sites.
The state of Minnesota has adopted legislation allowing the establishment of
safe consumption sites, becoming the second state in the US to do so.
Meanwhile an effort to approve safe consumption sites ...
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This week on Century of Lies: The Global Overdose Crisis. The Seventy-Sixth
World Health Assembly was held recently in Geneva, Switzerland. Among the
side events at this year’s Assembly, UNAIDS and the Open Society Foundation
hosted a discussion entitled “Responding to the ...
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This week on Century of Lies: Harm Reduction On The Agenda In Maine. LD 1364,
An Act to Prevent Opioid Overdose Deaths by Establishing Safe Consumption
Sites, is making its way through the Maine legislature. We hear from the
chief sponsor, State Representative Grayson Lookn...
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This week on Century of Lies: Drug Workers, Decriminalization and
Decolonization. Host Doug McVay is joined in conversation with Hilary Agro,
an anthropology PhD student at the University of British Columbia and a
researcher whose studies include drug policy, activism, and ...
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This week on Century of Lies: Safer Opioid Supply. The final evaluation
report on the Safer Opioid Supply Program at Parkdale Queen West Community
Health Centre in Toronto, Ontario, has just been released. We hear about the
report from Kate Atkinson, SOS Project Manager; Pa...
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