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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Saving Lives One Test Strip At A Time

Airs at: Wed, 09/21/2022 at 12:00am - 12:30am
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This week on Century of Lies: Saving Lives One Test Strip At A Time – a conversation with Alison Heller and Dean Shold, co-founders of FentCheck. FentCheck is a nonprofit that works to make fentanyl test strips available to people who need them and to educate the public on ... Read more

Justice, Health, and Recovery

Airs at: Mon, 09/19/2022 at 6:30pm - 7:00pm
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A new poll by Data For Progress shows strong support among Oregonians for Measure 110, the Drug Addiction Treatment and Recovery Act: strong support for decriminalization of people who use drugs, and strong support for funding the vital services that people in this state, i... Read more

Debunking Myths About Meth

Airs at: Wed, 09/14/2022 at 12:00am - 12:30am
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This week on Century of Lies: Debunking Myths About Meth - Part one of my interview with Claire Zagorski, a harm reduction activist, paramedic, graduate research assistant in translational science at the University of Texas College of Pharmacy, and adjunct faculty at the Ph... Read more

Undoing Drugs pt 2

Airs at: Wed, 09/07/2022 at 12:00am - 12:30am
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This week on Century of Lies: Undoing Drugs Pt 2 - A conversation with award-winning journalist and best-selling author Maia Szalavitz whose most recent book Undoing Drugs: The Untold Story of Harm Reduction and the Future of Addiction has just been released in paperback. P... Read more

Undoing Drugs pt 1

Airs at: Wed, 08/31/2022 at 12:00am - 12:30am
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This week on Century of Lies: Undoing Drugs Pt 1 - A conversation with award-winning journalist and best-selling author Maia Szalavitz whose most recent book Undoing Drugs: The Untold Story of Harm Reduction and the Future of Addiction has just been released in paperback. Read more

Cost Barriers and Naloxone Availability

Airs at: Wed, 08/24/2022 at 12:00am - 12:30am
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This week on Century of Lies: Cost barriers and naloxone availability – a conversation with Evan Peet, PhD, an economist at the RAND Corporation, a professor at Pardee RAND Graduate School, and one of the co-authors of an article published August 19 in JAMA Health Forum ent... Read more

How Mass Incarceration Destroys Families

Airs at: Mon, 08/22/2022 at 6:30pm - 7:00pm
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On this editon of Prison Pipeline, host Doug McVay speaks with Wanda Bertram, Communications Strategist for the Prison Policy Initiative, about how mass incarceration punishes entire families. Our national obsession with punishment and policies of mass incarceration have ... Read more

An Interesting Time To Be Alive

Airs at: Wed, 08/17/2022 at 6:30pm - 7:00pm
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On this edition of Free Culture Radio: An Interesting Time To Be Alive – a conversation with Sanho Tree, Fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies and Director of the IPS Drug Policy Project. Plus we talk with Haven Wheelock, Drug User Health Services Program Supervisor at... Read more

International Overdose Awareness Day is Aug 31 #EndOverdose

Airs at: Wed, 08/17/2022 at 12:00am - 12:30am
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This week on Century of Lies: International Overdose Awareness Day is August 31. We talk with Haven Wheelock, Drug Users Health Services Program Supervisor at Outside In in Portland, Oregon. Plus, we hear from Professor Leo Beletsky with Northeastern University School of La... Read more

Fighting Hep C with Safer Supply and Safer Consumption

Airs at: Wed, 08/10/2022 at 12:00am - 12:30am
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This week on Century of Lies: California Senate Bill 57, sponsored by Sen. Scott Wiener, legislation that would allow some jurisdictions to authorize the establishment of supervised consumption sites, goes to the desk of Governor Gavin Newsom; the Senate Judiciary Committee... Read more