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: Regulating Marijuana.
The feds and the UN notwithstanding, marijuana is basically legal for adults
in several US states and some other countries including Uruguay and Canada.
It was never a question of if and it’s no longer a question of when, ...
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This week on Century of Lies: Stimulants. It’s morning again in America so
it’s time to wake up, smell the coffee, and take a good hard look at
stimulants.
We hear from Kamran Niaz, an epidemiologist at UNODC, on Stimulant Use
Patterns as shown in UNODC’s 2023 World Drug R...
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This week on Century of Lies: The Path To End AIDS.
UNAIDS recently launched its 2023 Global AIDS Update. We hear from UNAIDS
Executive Director Winnie Byanyima; Loic Michaud, Head Nurse and an addiction
consultant at Checkpoint Geneva; Yana Panfilova with Teenergizer; and ...
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This week on Century of Lies: Saving Lives With Safer Supply.
The National Safer Supply Community of Practice released a new community
report entitled Prescription For Safety: A Study of Safer Opioid Supply
Programs in Ontario. We hear from some of the report's co-authors i...
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This week on Century of Lies: Fentanyl and Safer Smoking Kits.
We’re joined in conversation by Haven Wheelock, Harm Reduction Services
Manager at Outside In, to discuss fentanyl, smoking as an alternative to
injection, and safer smoking kits. Plus, the Addictions, Drug & Al...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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 ...
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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...
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