Century of Lies Century of Lies, with 16 years on air, has more than 30 affiliate stations in the US and Canada. Running 29 minutes per episode, Century of Lies is currently produced by Doug McVay, editor of Drug War Facts.

This week on Century of Lies: Progress In Vermont. The state of Vermont has approved legislation to allow municipalities to decide whether to authorize the establishment of overdose prevention centers, also known as supervised consumption facilities or safer consumption sites, overriding a veto by the state’s governor.

Vladimir Pozniak
Vladimir Pozniak, World Health Systems Facts
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This week on Century of Lies: Drug Checking Services and Synthetic Cathinones. We hear about drug checking services at festivals from Mar Cunha, a harm reductionist in Portugal who works with Kosmicare at their drug checking service; and we hear about cathinones from Steph Tzanetis, CanTEST Coordinator at Directions Health in Canberra, Australia.

Mar Cunha
Mar Cunha, Kosmicare
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This week on Century of Lies: European Drug Report 2024. The European Monitoring Centre on Drugs and Drug Addiction released its 2024 European Drug Report on Tuesday June Eleventh.

Alexis Goosdeel
Alexis Goosdeel EMCDDA Director, European Monitoring Centre on Drugs and Drug Addiction
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This week on Century of Lies: New Jersey Harm Reduction Conference Part One. On this edition of Century we hear from Dr. Sheila Vakharia, Deputy Director of the Department of Research and Academic Engagement at the Drug Policy Alliance and the author of The Harm Reduction Gap, speaking at the first annual New Jersey Harm Reduction Conference.

Dr. Sheila Vakharia
Dr. Sheila Vakharia, New Jersey Harm Reduction
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This week on Century of Lies: Safe Consumption Sites.

Shaleen Title
Shaleen Title, Parabola Center
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This week on Century of Lies: Rule of Law in the Balance. Since late during the Duterte presidency and continuing under President Ferdinand Marcos Junior, extrajudicial drug war killings in the Philippines have continued at the rate of about one per day.

Nicolo Figa-Talamanca,
David Borden, Stop the Drug War
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This week on Century of Lies: We Fight, We Hide, We Unite.

Daniel Joloy
Daniel Joloy, Eurasian Harm Reduction Association
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This week on Century of Lies: Civilly Disobedient - Part two of a conversation with writer, activist, and regional NORML organizer Chris Goldstein.

Chris Goldstein
Chris Goldstein
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This week on Century of Lies it's the first part of my conversation with the writer, activist, and regional NORML organizer Chris Goldstein.

Chris Goldstein
Chris Goldstein, NORML
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This week on Century of Lies: Human Rights and the Drug War. In the Philippines, former Senator Leila de Lima was imprisoned for nearly seven years by the Duterte regime, framed for crimes she didn’t commit because she spoke out against human rights abuses and extrajudicial killings there.

Palani Narayanan
Palani Narayanan, Director of the Drug Policy Program at the Malaysian AIDS Foundation
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