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.
The European School Survey Project on Alcohol and Other Drugs, ESPAD for
short, is a collaborative effort of research teams in more than 40 European
countries and the largest cross-national research project on adolescent
substance use in the world. On this edition of Centur...
Read more
Oregon Ballot Measure 110, the Drug Addiction Treatment and Recovery Act, was
approved overwhelmingly by voters in the November general election. On this
edition of Century of Lies we speak with Haven Wheelock, MPH, one of the
chief petitioners for Measure 110, about the vo...
Read more
Update Required
To play the media you will need to either update your browser to a recent version or update your
Flash plugin.
This week on Century: International drug policy reform, featuring Bishnu
Sharma, Executive Director of the nongovernmental organization Recovering
Nepal; Doctor Justice Tettey, he heads up UNODC’s Laboratory and Scientific
Section; and Doctor David Nutt, the Edmond J. Safra...
Read more
Update Required
To play the media you will need to either update your browser to a recent version or update your
Flash plugin.
On this edition of Century of Lies: Dr. Emily Wang, Associate Professor of
Medicine at Yale School of Medicine, on the new report by NASEM entitled
Decarcerating Correctional Facilities During COVID-19: Advancing Health,
Equity, and Safety. Plus, Lorenzo Uribe, a graduate s...
Read more
Live from this year’s virtual Seattle Hempfest, a discussion of activist
journalism featuring Kymone Freeman, a writer and organizer who co-founded
and operates a radio station in DC called WeAct Radio; Vanessa Maria Graber,
a journalist and radio producer from Philadelphia...
Read more
Update Required
To play the media you will need to either update your browser to a recent version or update your
Flash plugin.
Undoing The War On Drugs: Hope, Healing, and Measure 110. The Partnership for
Safety and Justice recently held a webinar on Oregon Ballot Measure 110, the
Drug Addiction Treatment and Recovery Act. We’ll hear some of the speakers
including Andy Ko, the executive director of...
Read more
This week on Century: European Drug Report 2020. Plus, a presentation on
supervised consumption facilities featuring: Brad Finegood, Strategic Advisor
at Public Health – Seattle & King County; Jesse Rawlins, Public Policy
Manager, Public Defenders Association; Mark Cooke, A...
Read more
The city of Burlington, Vermont, has joined with many other cities in the US
to examine the possibility of establishing a supervised consumption site. We
hear from members of the Burlington City Council about that. Plus a funeral
for a friend: Robert Field and Kymone Freema...
Read more
This week on Century of Lies: Drug Regulation and Development. The nonprofit
Health Poverty Action recently began a webinar series entitled A World With
Drugs: Legal Regulation Through A Development Lens. They held the first
webinar in this series recently, Drugs are a Deve...
Read more
Update Required
To play the media you will need to either update your browser to a recent version or update your
Flash plugin.
This week on Century: Multnomah County District Attorney Mike Schmidt and
Oregon Justice Resource Center Executive Director Bobbin Singh on recent
events in the city of Portland, Oregon. Plus, Virtual Hempfest will be
October 10 and 11! To whet everyone's appetite we look b...
Read more