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 we talk about harm reduction and International
Overdose Awareness Day with Ria Tsinas, Co-Founder of the Academy of
Perinatal Harm Reduction; Avi Yocheved, harm reduction activist and member of
Portland Drug Users Union; and Lill Prosperino, Sou...
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This week: Decriminalization advances in cities across Canada, and the Drug
Users Liberation Front on safe supply, harm reduction and International
Overdose Awareness Day, which is August 31.
International Overdose Awareness Day
Drug User Liberation Front
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This week on Century of Lies: The San Diego Sheriff’s Department fakes an
overdose video, and residents of Somerville, MA work to save lives by opening
a supervised consumption site.
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On this edition of Century of Lies, part two of my conversation with Maia
Szalavitz, her new book is Undoing Drugs: The Untold Story of Harm Reduction
and the Future of Addiction. Plus we speak with Wanda Bertram, Communications
Strategist with the Prison Policy Initiative,...
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On this edition of Century of Lies, part one of a conversation with
award-winning journalist and NY Times best-selling author Maia Szalavitz.
Maia and host Doug McVay talk about harm reduction, drug policy,
and Maia's new book Undoing Drugs: The Untold Story of Harm Reducti...
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On this edition of Century of Lies, we discuss magic mushrooms, psilocybin
therapy, equity, and social justice with Elan Hagens and Rebecca Martinez,
co-founders of the Fruiting Bodies Collective.
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On this edition of Century of Lies, host Doug McVay is joined by Brandon
Marshall, PhD, Associate Professor of Epidemiology at the Brown University
School of Public Health and founding director of the People, Place & Health
Collective, to discuss harm reduction, recovery, c...
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On July 7, Rhode Island Governor Dan McKee signed legislation that authorizes
a two-year pilot program to prevent drug overdose deaths through the
establishment of harm reduction centers. According to a news release from the
Rhode Island General Assembly, The law quote “aut...
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This week on Century of Lies we examine the protests rocking Colombia.
Congress’s Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission held a hearing on the
Colombia protests July First. We hear from three of the witnesses: Elizabeth
Dickinson, a Senior Analyst for Colombia with the Internat...
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On this edition of Century of Lies: Angela Me, chief of the UNODC Statistics
and Surveys Section, on the release of World Drug Report 2021
#ShareFactsOnDrugs
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