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.
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This week on Century: Doctor Mitch Earleywine on alcohol addiction,
treatment, and recovery, plus a conversation with the comedian, journalist,
and activist Ngaio Bealum.
Professor Earleywine's lectures for the Spring 2020 semester
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This week on Century of Lies: Prisons, jails, and pandemic. In this time of
pandemic, correctional institutions are like Petri dishes in which the novel
coronavirus COVID-19 grows and spreads. Public health experts and criminal
justice advocates around the nation are demand...
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This week, we bring you an archive edition from August 30, 2015. It’s one
our of Hempfest specials. Seattle Hempfest is a brilliant event, bringing
together a couple hundred thousand beautiful freedom loving marijuana
legalizing drug policy reforming people to a few mile st...
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Issues with sound quality, which were the fault of the producer, have made it
necessary to replace this week's show. We apologize for any inconvenience.
This week on Century of Lies: Harm reduction for stimulant users, featuring
Mike Discepola with the San Francisco AIDS...
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This week on Century of Lies: the Philadelphia City Council is considering a
bill that could prevent a local nonprofit from setting up a supervised
consumption facility. We hear from Philly Health Commissioner Dr. Thomas
Farley and harm reduction advocates Brooke Feldman, D...
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This week on Century of Lies: An effort is underway in Oregon to
decriminalize simple possession of drugs, we hear audio from the launch
event and interviews with harm reduction activists Haven Wheelock, Bobby
Byrd, and Dr. Andy Seaman. Plus, the International Narcotics Con...
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This week on Century we speak with longtime activist, journalist, and radio
producer Lisa Loving about her book Street Journalist: Understand and Report
the News In Your Community. Plus we hear from Special Inspector General for
Afghanistan Reconstruction John Sopko about t...
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The city of Baltimore is one of the US cities discussing how to set up
supervised consumption facilities and overdose prevention sites. On today's
Century we hear from Christa Daring, Executive Director of the Sex Workers
Outreach Project USA; Rajani Gudlavalletti, Communit...
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This week on Century of Lies we're joined by Sanho Tree, Fellow at the
Institute for Policy Studies and Director of the IPS Drug Policy Project.
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This week on Century of Lies: The city of Baltimore considers supervised
consumption facilities; the state of Indiana takes a step backward in public
health; and we hear from the US Dept. of Health and Human Services about the
benefits of syringe service programs.
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