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.
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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.

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.

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.
