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: 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; Pa...
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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 Col...
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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 S...
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This week on Century of Lies: Working to Save Lives in Maine. More and more
US states are looking toward expansion of harm reduction services. On this
edition of Century we look at a bill working its way through the Maine
Legislature that would allow communities to establis...
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This week on Century of Lies: New Washington State Drug Laws Post-Blake.
Drug possession laws in Washington state were invalidated in 2021 by a state
supreme court decision in the case of State v Blake. The legislature moved
quickly to put some laws back in place but the me...
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This week on Century of Lies: Solidarity and Community Mobilization.
We hear from Anton Basenko with the Ukrainian Network of People Who Use Drugs
on the power of community mobilization in responding to the war in Ukraine,
and from Magdalena Bartnik with the Precursor Found...
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This week on Century of Lies: Drugs and the Death Penalty. Harm Reduction
International released a new report, The Death Penalty for Drug Offenses:
Global Overview 2022. On this edition of Century we speak with the lead
author, Ajeng Larasati, Human Rights Lead at HRI.
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This week on Century of Lies: Human Rights and Reform at the UN.
The sixty-sixth session of the UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs was March 13
through 17 in Vienna, Austria. At this year’s session, the voices of people
from the global south, of indigenous people from all over...
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This week on Century of Lies: Human Rights and Decolonization. The
Sixty-Sixth Session of the UN’s Commission on Narcotic Drugs meets in
Vienna, Austria from March 13-17 this year. We hear powerful statements on
decolonization and human rights from Bolivian Vice President D...
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This week on Century of Lies: Compassion Gains Ground in Colorado. The
Colorado Legislature is considering whether to allow municipalities in that
state to save lives by authorizing the operation of overdose prevention
centers. We hear from two of the co-sponsors of House B...
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