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: Defending the Good Samaritan.
Good Samaritan Laws shield people from prosecution when they call emergency
services in the case of an overdose. Just because they’re shielded from
being charged or prosecuted, does that mean they’re also shielded ...
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This week on Century of Lies: Drug War in the Amazon Basin.
The Amazon basin and the tri-border region of Brazil, Colombia, and Peru
have been particularly hard hit and transformed by the drug war. The Global
Initiative on Transnational Organized Crime released a new report...
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This week on Century of Lies: Ukraine.
At the recent European Harm Reduction Conference in Warsaw, Poland, a panel
entitled "Harm Reduction in the War in Ukraine" explored innovative
strategies developed to address the complex challenges posed by the war. On
this week’s ed...
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This week on Century of Lies: Scotland's Charter of Rights.
The Scottish Government has released a new Charter of Rights for People
Affected by Substance Use. The Charter was developed by an independent
commission called the National Collaborative, which started work back i...
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This week on Century of Lies: Counterfeit Benzos.
In the words of the executive producer of the Drug Truth Network, Dean
Becker, Because of prohibition you don't know what's in that bag. That was
true well before fentanyl came along. And these days, it's not only fentanyl,...
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This week on Century of Lies: Human Rights and Decolonization.
The UN’s Commission on Narcotic Drugs and Commission on Crime Prevention
and Criminal Justice held joint meetings December 4 and 5. Topics being
discussed included the WHO Expert Committee’s upcoming review of t...
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This week on Century of Lies: Social Responses for Women Who Use Drugs.
The European Union Drugs Agency in collaboration with the Cooperation
Programme between Latin America, the Caribbean and the European Union on drug
policies recently held a webinar entitled Health and s...
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This week on Century of Lies: State of the Global Drug War 2024.
The United Nations Commission on Narcotic Drugs held a set of thematic
discussions November 12 through 14. On this edition of Century hear from
Chloe Carpentier, Chief of the Research and Knowledge Production ...
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This week on Century of Lies: Descheduling and Decolonizing Coca.
The Commission on Narcotic Drugs just completed a set of intersessional
meetings in Vienna, Austria, which were held November 12 through 14. One of
the topics under discussion was the international scheduling...
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This week on Century of Lies: Decriminalizing and Decolonizing Coca.
The nations of Colombia and Bolivia held an event at the United Nations in
New York on November Seventh to challenge the negative connotation attributed
to the coca plant. The event was entitled "Beyond De...
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