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: Synthetic Drugs.
The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime hosted a two-day meeting of its
Synthetic Drug Strategy Expert Group on January 30 and 31. Discussions
focused on international integrated responses in four key areas:
multilaterali...
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This week on Century of Lies: Rebooting the Drug War.
Congress appears determined to march farther down the road of drug war folly.
On this week’s Century we look at two recent Congressional hearings.
The Senate Committee on the Judiciary held a hearing February 4 entitled ...
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This week on Century of Lies: Planet Youth.
Planet Youth is a community wide approach to encourage and enable people to
use data and evidence to create better, healthier environments for young
people and to support healthier choices around substance use. The Scottish
Drugs...
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This week on Century of Lies: Remembering Ernie Drucker.
Ernest Drucker, PhD, was a brilliant man. He was also a good friend and
colleague. Ernie was author of over one hundred peer reviewed scientific
articles, texts, and book chapters, founding Associate Editor of The
In...
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This week on Century of Lies: The Intersection Between Services for the
Unhoused and Harm Reduction Work.
Homelessness is on the rise around the world. People who use drugs and who
are unhoused, or at risk of being unhoused, are key user groups of harm
reduction services. ...
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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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