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Drug Policy, Health, and Human Rights

Airs at: Wed, 06/14/2023 at 12:00am - 12:30am
Produced for:  Century Of Lies
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 th... Read more

Minnesota Approves Safe Consumption Sites

Airs at: Wed, 06/07/2023 at 12:00am - 12:30am
Produced for:  Century Of Lies
This week on Century of Lies: Minnesota Approves Safe Consumption Sites. The state of Minnesota has adopted legislation allowing the establishment of safe consumption sites, becoming the second state in the US to do so. Meanwhile an effort to approve safe consumption site... Read more

Stopping the HALT Act

Airs at: Mon, 06/05/2023 at 6:30pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Prison Pipeline
On May 25, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the Halt All Lethal Trafficking of Fentanyl (HALT) Act (H.R. 467). The bill expands mandatory minimums for fentanyl analogue cases and permanently schedules all fentanyl-related substances as Schedule I, without first t... Read more

The Global Overdose Crisis

Airs at: Wed, 05/31/2023 at 12:00am - 12:30am
Produced for:  Century Of Lies
This week on Century of Lies: The Global Overdose Crisis. The Seventy-Sixth World Health Assembly was held recently in Geneva, Switzerland. Among the side events at this year’s Assembly, UNAIDS and the Open Society Foundation hosted a discussion entitled “Responding to t... Read more

Harm Reduction On The Agenda In Maine

Airs at: Wed, 05/24/2023 at 12:00am - 12:30am
Produced for:  Century Of Lies
This week on Century of Lies: Harm Reduction On The Agenda In Maine. LD 1364, An Act to Prevent Opioid Overdose Deaths by Establishing Safe Consumption Sites, is making its way through the Maine legislature. We hear from the chief sponsor, State Representative Grayson Lo... Read more

Drug Workers and Decolonization

Airs at: Wed, 05/17/2023 at 12:00am - 12:30am
Produced for:  Century Of Lies
This week on Century of Lies: Drug Workers, Decriminalization and Decolonization. Host Doug McVay is joined in conversation with Hilary Agro, an anthropology PhD student at the University of British Columbia and a researcher whose studies include drug policy, activism, a... Read more

Defending the Humanity of People Who Sell Drugs

Airs at: Wed, 05/17/2023 at 6:30pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Free Culture Radio
On this edition of Free Culture Radio, Defending the Humanity of People Who Sell Drugs: a conversation with Hilary Agro, an anthropology PhD student at the University of British Columbia and a researcher whose studies include drug policy, activism, and the harms of prohi... Read more

Safer Opioid Supply

Airs at: Wed, 05/10/2023 at 12:00am - 12:30am
Produced for:  Century Of Lies
This week on Century of Lies: Safer Opioid Supply. The final evaluation report on the Safer Opioid Supply Program at Parkdale Queen West Community Health Centre in Toronto, Ontario, has just been released. We hear about the report from Kate Atkinson, SOS Project Manager;... Read more

Saving Lives In Rhode Island

Airs at: Wed, 05/03/2023 at 12:00am - 12:30am
Produced for:  Century Of Lies
This week on Century of Lies: Saving Lives in Rhode Island. The state of Rhode Island is about to open the first state-authorized legal overdose prevention sites in the United States, so to hear more about this historic effort, on this edition of Century we’re joined by ... Read more

Music, Drugs, and Harm Reduction

Airs at: Wed, 04/26/2023 at 12:00am - 12:30am
Produced for:  Century Of Lies
This week on Century of Lies: Music, Drugs, and Harm Reduction. We hear from Dr. Jodie Grigg, a Research Associate at the National Drug Research Institute at Curtin University in Perth and coordinator of the Western Australia arm of the Ecstasy and Related Drugs Reporting... Read more