Doug McVay

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Doug McVay

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Editor, public policy researcher/analyst, journalist

Host of Free Culture Radio, which airs on the 3rd Wednesday of each month from 6:30 - 7 pm. Please check out the Free Culture Radio page on Facebook and give it a like!

Doug McVay is an editor, journalist, researcher, and social justice advocate. He first became active in drug policy reform efforts when he organized a NORML chapter at the University of Iowa in 1983.

At KBOO, Doug volunteers in the News and Public Affairs departments, where he reports, does interviews, and produces public affairs programs including Century of Lies, Free Culture Radio, and the occasional edition of Prison Pipeline. He's been a producer on the evening news and has from time to time co-anchored the evening news.

He is employed by the Real Reporting Foundation and serves as Editor of Health Systems Facts and Drug Policy Facts.

Twitter: @DougMcVay.

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Boiling Point

Airs at: Wed, 10/18/2023 at 6:30pm - 7:00pm

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The United Nations Commission on Narcotic Drugs will hold a high-level ‘mid-term review’ in March of 2024 to take stock of progress made and challenges remaining for the international drug control regime. In preparation for this, the International Drug Policy Consortium hel... Read more

Safer Supply Saves Lives

Airs at: Wed, 10/18/2023 at 12:00am - 12:30am

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This week on Century of Lies: Safer Supply Saves Lives. The National Safer Supply Community of Practice recently launched the London, Ontario InterCommunity Health Centre Safer Supply Program 2023 Evaluation Report. We’re given an overview of the report by Gillian Kolla, Ph... Read more

The Wind of Change

Airs at: Wed, 10/11/2023 at 12:00am - 12:30am

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This week on Century of Lies: The Wind of Change. United for Marijuana Decriminalization is a coalition of marijuana policy reform organizations. They held a news conference October Fifth to discuss how the Biden Administration can move forward to advance marijuana decrimi... Read more

Image and Performance Enhancing Drugs and Harm Reduction

Airs at: Wed, 10/04/2023 at 12:00am - 12:30am

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This week on Century of Lies: Image and Performance Enhancing Drugs and Harm Reduction. On this edition of Century, part two of a conversation with Doctor Tim Piatkowski, a researcher and lecturer at Griffith University in Queensland, Australia, who has been doing some gro... Read more

Drug Decriminalization and Overdose Deaths

Airs at: Mon, 10/02/2023 at 6:30pm - 7:00pm

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On this edition of Prison Pipeline: Drug Decriminalization and Overdose Deaths. Professor Spruha Joshi, PhD, MPH is one of the co-authors of a research article published September 27 in the journal JAMA Psychiatry entitled “One-Year Association of Drug Possession Law Chang... Read more

Image and Performance Enhancing Drugs

Airs at: Wed, 09/27/2023 at 12:00am - 12:30am

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On this edition of Century, part one of a conversation with Doctor Tim Piatkowski, a researcher and lecturer at Griffith University in Queensland, Australia, who has been doing some groundbreaking work on harm reduction and the community of people who use image and performa... Read more

International Development and the War on Drugs

Airs at: Wed, 09/20/2023 at 6:30pm - 7:00pm

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On this edition of Free Culture Radio: International Development and the War on Drugs. We’re joined by Sanho Tree, Director of the Drug Policy Project at the Institute for Policy Studies, to discuss Colombia, development aid, and the war on drugs. Plus, Harm Reduction Inte... Read more

Aid for the War on Drugs

Airs at: Wed, 09/20/2023 at 12:00am - 12:30am

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This week on Century of Lies: Aid for the War on Drugs. Harm Reduction International has released a report entitled Aid for the War on Drugs, which follows overseas development aid that’s being spent on policing and drug control around the world. We hear from the report’s ... Read more

Reschedule or Deschedule?

Airs at: Wed, 09/13/2023 at 12:00am - 12:30am

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This week on Century of Lies: Reschedule or Deschedule? The Drug Enforcement Administration is set to review marijuana’s placement in Schedule One. To learn more we hear from Shaleen Title, Founder and Director of the Parabola Center. Plus: a new report by the UK House of ... Read more