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.
Anyone’s Child and the Transform Drug Policy Foundation hosted a webinar
recently entitled Take Drugs Seriously: Voices on the ground. On this
week’s show we hear from some of the speakers, including Penny McCanny, the
mother of Aidan and a campaigner with Anyone’s Child; P...
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The Katal Center for Equity, Health, and Justice turns five this year. To
celebrate, they’ve begun hosting a series of public dialogues about the
broad themes that drive their work: equity, health, and justice. The first of
those dialogues was held March 29. On this edition...
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The Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee of the UK House of Commons
recently held a hearing on The Future of UK Music Festivals. One panel looked
at ways to reduce possible drug-related harms, including the possibility of
drug safety testing at festivals and other ev...
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Supervised consumption sites could soon be opening in California. We hear
from the lead sponsor of Senate Bill 57, State Senator Scott Weiner along
with Senator Susan Eggman and Senator Lena Gonzalez.
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The state of New Mexico is considering how to authorize and open supervised
consumption facilities in that state, we hear from the chief sponsor of House
Bill 123, NM State Representative Deborah Armstrong, and Emily Kaltenbach
with the Drug Policy Alliance. Plus we hear fr...
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The Clean Slate NY campaign launched at the end of February. We hear from
several members of the coalition including Quintin Cross from the Hudson
Catskill Housing Coalition, Zaki Smith from the organization Next 100, the
Reverend Kevin Van Hook from Riverside Church in New...
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The Association of British Muslims recently held a discussion on drugs
policy. On this edition of Century we hear from two of the featured speakers:
Neil Woods, formerly an undercover police officer in the UK who is now a
leading reform activist and member of the organizati...
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The Washington Legislature is considering House Bill 1499 - Providing
behavioral health system responses to individuals with substance use
disorder. Their House Public Safety Committee held a hearing on the bill on
Feb. 12. On this edition of Century we hear from some of th...
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This week on Century: Homelessness and Substance Use. We hear from Geert De
Bolle with Housing First LAB in Belgium and Cristiana Merendeiro with
Associação Crescer in Portugal. They spoke recently on a webinar held by
the European Monitoring Center on Drugs and Drug Addict...
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This week on Century of Lies: Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon on
harm reduction, supervised consumption facilities, heroin assisted treatment,
and the need to end stigma and treat people who use drugs with dignity and
respect. Plus, we hear from Dawn Wooten, LPN, ...
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