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Toolkits for Reform

Airs at: Mon, 07/17/2023 at 6:30pm - 7:00pm
Produced for Prison Pipeline
This week on Prison Pipeline: Toolkits for Reform - A Conversation with Wanda Bertram, Communications Strategist at the Prison Policy Initiative. Criminal legal system reforms are being introduced at a rapid pace across the United States, often with the stated goal of reduc... Read more

Scotland Takes a Stand

Airs at: Wed, 07/12/2023 at 12:00am - 12:30am
Produced for Century Of Lies
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... Read more

Indigenous Rights, Colonialism, and Psychedelic Exploitation

Airs at: Wed, 07/05/2023 at 12:00am - 12:30am
Produced for Century Of Lies
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... Read more

Meditation Interventions to Rewire the Brain

Airs at: Sun, 07/09/2023 at 8:30am - 9:00am
Produced for Pathways
Psychologist Jeff Tarrant is board certified in neurofeedback. Dr. Tarrant is the founder and Director of the NeuroMeditation Institute in Eugene, OR, as well as Chief Science Officer for Healium, XR, creating biometrically controlled virtual reality experiences. Jeff speci... Read more

A Citizens' Assembly on Drugs Use

Airs at: Wed, 06/28/2023 at 12:00am - 12:30am
Produced for Century Of Lies
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... Read more

Drug Arrests, Overdose, and Treatment

Airs at: Wed, 06/21/2023 at 12:00am - 12:30am
Produced for Century Of Lies
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 ... Read more

Drugs, Law Enforcement, and Public Health

Airs at: Wed, 06/21/2023 at 6:30pm - 7:00pm
Produced for Free Culture Radio
On this edition of Free Culture Radio: Drugs, Law Enforcement, and Public Health - A conversation with Doctor Bradley Ray, a Senior Justice and Behavioral Health Researcher at RTI International and one of the co-authors of an article entitled “Spatiotemporal Analysis Explor... Read more

Drug Policy, Health, and Human Rights

Airs at: Wed, 06/14/2023 at 12:00am - 12:30am
Produced for Century Of Lies
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... Read more

Minnesota Approves Safe Consumption Sites

Airs at: Wed, 06/07/2023 at 12:00am - 12:30am
Produced for Century Of Lies
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 ... Read more

Stopping the HALT Act

Airs at: Mon, 06/05/2023 at 6:30pm - 7:00pm
Produced for Prison Pipeline
On May 25, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the Halt All Lethal Trafficking of Fentanyl (HALT) Act (H.R. 467). The bill expands mandatory minimums for fentanyl analogue cases and permanently schedules all fentanyl-related substances as Schedule I, without first test... Read more