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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On this holiday edition of Century, Maia Szalavitz in an interview from 2016
on harm reduction and reporting on drugs, and Professor Kerwin Kaye in an
interview from 2020 on Synanon and punitive drug “treatment”.
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On this edition of Century we'll hear archived audio with Oregon activist
Anna Diaz, Wisconsin activist Dennis Doyle Brennan, Oregon attorney Leland
Berger, internationally renowned comedian Ngaio Bealum, and best-selling
author Johann Hari.
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On this edition of Century, we speak with Ashish Thakrar, MD, a Fellow in the
National Clinician Scholars Program at the University of Pennsylvania one of
the co-authors of an article entitled “Trends in Buprenorphine Use in US
Jails and Prisons From 2016 to 2021”, publi...
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On this edition of Century of Lies: Part two of a conversation with Shaun
Shelly, the Policy, Advocacy and Human Rights Manager for People Who Use
Drugs for the nonprofit organization TB HIV Care and chair of the South
African Network of People Who Use Drugs.
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On this edition of Century of Lies: Part one of a conversation with Shaun
Shelly, the Policy, Advocacy and Human Rights Manager for People Who Use
Drugs for the nonprofit organization TB HIV Care and chair of the South
African Network of People Who Use Drugs; plus, we sp...
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On this edition of Century of Lies: Pablo de Greiff, Director of the
Transitional Justice Program at the Center for Human Rights and Global
Justice of the School of Law at New York University, and Collette Flanagan,
CEO and Founder of Mothers Against Police Brutality, di...
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On this edition of Century, we speak with Ron Williams, a longtime
Portland-area community activist and the Outreach Coordinator for the Health
Justice Recovery Alliance, about the Drug Addiction Treatment & Recovery Act;
plus, we hear the rest of a conversation with Bri...
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On this edition of Century we hear more from a conversation with Brittany
Graham, Acting Executive Director of the Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users
(VANDU), Elli Taylor with VANDU and the Western Aboriginal Harm Reduction
Society, and Caitlin Shane, Staff Lawyer at t...
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The government in British Columbia is seeking official approval from the
Canadian government to decriminalize simple possession of some drugs. On this
edition of Century we discuss that proposal with Brittany Graham, Acting
Executive Director of the Vancouver Area Networ...
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This week on Century of Lies: a conversation with Anthony Johnson, a leader
in drug policy reform who was a chief petitioner for Oregon Ballot Measure
91, which legalized adult social use of marijuana in 2014, and a chief
petitioner for Oregon Ballot Measure 110, the Dru...
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