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Planet Youth

Airs at: Wed, 02/05/2025 at 12:00am - 12:30am
Produced for:  Century Of Lies
This week on Century of Lies: Planet Youth. Planet Youth is a community wide approach to encourage and enable people to use data and evidence to create better, healthier environments for young people and to support healthier choices around substance use. The Scottish Drugs... Read more

Remembering Ernie Drucker

Airs at: Wed, 01/29/2025 at 12:00am - 12:30am
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This week on Century of Lies: Remembering Ernie Drucker. Ernest Drucker, PhD, was a brilliant man. He was also a good friend and colleague. Ernie was author of over one hundred peer reviewed scientific articles, texts, and book chapters, founding Associate Editor of The In... Read more

The Intersection Between Services for the Unhoused and Harm Reduction Work

Airs at: Wed, 01/22/2025 at 12:00am - 12:30am
Produced for:  Century Of Lies
This week on Century of Lies: The Intersection Between Services for the Unhoused and Harm Reduction Work. Homelessness is on the rise around the world. People who use drugs and who are unhoused, or at risk of being unhoused, are key user groups of harm reduction services. ... Read more

Defending the Good Samaritan

Airs at: Wed, 01/15/2025 at 12:00am - 12:30am
Produced for:  Century Of Lies
This week on Century of Lies: Defending the Good Samaritan. Good Samaritan Laws shield people from prosecution when they call emergency services in the case of an overdose. Just because they’re shielded from being charged or prosecuted, does that mean they’re also shielded ... Read more

Human Rights and Drug Policies in an Evolving Global Paradigm

Airs at: Wed, 01/15/2025 at 6:30pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Free Culture Radio
On this edition of Free Culture Radio: Human Rights and Drug Policies in an Evolving Global Paradigm. The Sixth European Harm Reduction Conference was held recently in Warsaw, Poland. In one of the sessions, entitled “navigating human rights in drug policy reform,” panelis... Read more

Drug War in the Amazon Basin

Airs at: Wed, 01/08/2025 at 12:00am - 12:30am
Produced for:  Century Of Lies
This week on Century of Lies: Drug War in the Amazon Basin. The Amazon basin and the tri-border region of Brazil, Colombia, and Peru have been particularly hard hit and transformed by the drug war. The Global Initiative on Transnational Organized Crime released a new report... Read more

Ukraine

Airs at: Wed, 01/01/2025 at 12:00am - 12:30am
Produced for:  Century Of Lies
This week on Century of Lies: Ukraine. At the recent European Harm Reduction Conference in Warsaw, Poland, a panel entitled "Harm Reduction in the War in Ukraine" explored innovative strategies developed to address the complex challenges posed by the war. On this week’s ed... Read more

Oregon's New Drug Policies

Airs at: Mon, 12/30/2024 at 6:30pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Prison Pipeline
Join Prison Pipeline hosts Emma Lugo, Karen James, Doug McVay & Adam Carpinelli, as they discuss this past year’s decision by Oregon legislators to overturn Ballot Measure 110 which was overwhelmingly approved by Oregonians in 2020. Legislators passed HB4002 which recrimina... Read more

Scotland's Charter of Rights

Airs at: Wed, 12/25/2024 at 12:00am - 12:30am
Produced for:  Century Of Lies
This week on Century of Lies: Scotland's Charter of Rights. The Scottish Government has released a new Charter of Rights for People Affected by Substance Use. The Charter was developed by an independent commission called the National Collaborative, which started work back i... Read more

Counterfeit Benzos

Airs at: Wed, 12/18/2024 at 12:00am - 12:30am
Produced for:  Century Of Lies
This week on Century of Lies: Counterfeit Benzos.  In the words of the executive producer of the Drug Truth Network, Dean Becker, Because of prohibition you don't know what's in that bag. That was true well before fentanyl came along. And these days, it's not only fentanyl,... Read more