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: Reform Continues To Advance In Ireland.
The Republic of Ireland’s parliamentary Joint Committee on Justice released
a Report on December 14 that among other things recommends
decriminalization of people who use drugs and the regulation of cert...
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This week on Century of Lies: The Global State Of Harm Reduction. Harm
Reduction International recently released its annual report on the Global
State of Harm Reduction. We hear an overview from HRI Executive Director
Naomi Burke-Shyne and HRI Deputy Director and Public Hea...
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This week on Century of Lies: Reform Moves Ahead In Ireland.
The Republic of Ireland is moving closer to decriminalizing people who use
drugs. A motion supporting establishment of a citizen’s assembly on drugs
to discuss and propose reforms was approved by the Dáil Éireann ...
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This week on Century of Lies: Meeting People Where They’re At.
On this edition of Century we look once again at Canada’s Safer Supply
programs. We hear from Praneetha Mahindan, NP; Dalena Dang, NP, Madison
Joyce, RN, and Hannah Levitt, Case Manager with the Parkdale Queen ...
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This week on Century of Lies: Pestilence and War. Professor Jennifer J.
Carroll, PhD, MPH, a medical anthropologist, research scientist, and subject
matter expert on substance use and public health, speaks about the Global
Impacts of War and Covid-19.
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This week on Century of Lies: #WonderBanned. We talk capitalism and corporate
psychedelia with Neşe Devenot, PhD, a Postdoctoral Associate at the
Institute for Research in Sensing (IRiS) at the University of Cincinnati,
where she studies bioethical perspectives on the nasce...
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This week on Century of Lies: Healthcare During and After Incarceration. We
hear from participants in an event sponsored by the National Institute for
Health Care Management event entitled “Health During and After
Incarceration,” including Lauren Brinkley-Rubinstein, PhD, a...
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This week on Century of Lies: Justice Data in America. We hear from criminal
justice researcher John Roman, PhD, with NORC on “Everything you think you
know about guns is wrong: Myths, facts and where to find the best research
and data”. Plus, Corey Ranger, a Harm Reduction...
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This week on Century of Lies: Canada’s Bill C-5, Too Little & Too Late. We
hear from Beeta Senedjani, Dialogues Program Coordinator with the Canadian
Drug Policy Coalition; Nicole Luongo, Systems Change Coordinator with the
Canadian Drug Policy Coalition; Safiyya Ahmad, Stu...
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This week on Century of Lies: Human Rights and Drug Policy. The Commission on
Narcotic Drugs held thematic discussions on September 21 and 22. On the
subject of human rights and drug control we hear from Angela Me, Chief of the
Research and Trend Analysis Branch at the UNOD...
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