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.
Dr. Sarah Morton from University College Dublin and Judy Chang, Executive
Director of the International Network of People who Use Drugs, on Women and
Drugs.
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This week on Century: Legalization and the art of the impossible. The
Canadian Parliament is currently considering Bill C-126, A Health-Based
Approach to the Substance Use Act. We hear from the sponsor, MP Gord Johns.
Plus Eris Nyx with the Drug User Liberation Front.
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This week on Century we discuss adolescent overdose deaths, harm reduction,
and recovery with Joseph Friedman, an addictions researcher and MD/PhD
student at the Center for Social Medicine at UCLA, and Dr. Sheila Vakharia,
Deputy Director of the Department of Research and A...
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On this edition of Century we're joined by Sarah Reyes, MSW, Policy Analyst
with the Texas Center for Justice and Equity and co-author of their new
report “Reversing the War on Drugs in Texas: Prioritizing REAL Public
Health and Safety for Texans.” We discuss the failures o...
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This week on Century, a discussion on Extrajudicial Drug War Killings in 2022
with David Borden, Director of the DRCNet Foundation / StopTheDrugWar.org;
Zaved Mahmood, human rights and drug policy advisor to the UN Office of the
High Commissioner on Human Rights; and Commis...
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On this week's Century, it's part three of our coverage of the 65th annual
session of the UN's Commission on Narcotic Drugs: Russia finally falls from
grace, plus words from Dave Borden, Executive Director of DRCNet Foundation
and StopTheDrugWar.org, and Luciana Pol, an Arg...
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This week on Century, it’s part two of our coverage of the 65th annual
session of the UN’s Commission on Narcotic Drugs, which took place March
14-18 2022 in Vienna, Austria. We hear from Dr. Joao Goulao, President of the
Pompidou Group and Director-General of Portugal’s Se...
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This week on Century, it’s part one of our coverage of the 65th annual
session of the UN’s Commission on Narcotic Drugs, Austria, taking place
March 14-18 2022 in Vienna, Austria. We hear from Winnie Byanyima, Executive
Director of UNAIDS; Jamie Bridge, Chief Operating Offi...
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On this edition of Century, we speak with Joseph R. Friedman, MPH, an
addictions researcher and MD/PhD student at the Center for Social Medicine
and Humanities at UCLA, about overdose, harm reduction, and racial justice;
plus we hear from Dr. Christy Sutherland with the Por...
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On this edition of Century of Lies, Imperialism and the War on Drugs: A
Conversation with Sanho Tree, Director of the Drug Policy Project at the
Institute for Policy Studies.
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