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Drug War in the Amazon Basin

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2025/01/08

This week on Century of Lies: Drug War in the Amazon Basin.The Amazon basin and the tri-border region of Brazil, Colombia, and Peru have been particularly hard hit and transformed by the drug war. The Global Initiative on Transnational Organized Crime released a new report...

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Ukraine

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2025/01/01

This week on Century of Lies: Ukraine.At the recent European Harm Reduction Conference in Warsaw, Poland, a panel entitled "Harm Reduction in the War in Ukraine" explored innovative strategies developed to address the complex challenges posed by the war. On this week’s ed...

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Scotland's Charter of Rights

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2024/12/25

This week on Century of Lies: Scotland's Charter of Rights. The Scottish Government has released a new Charter of Rights for People Affected by Substance Use. The Charter was developed by an independent commission called the National Collaborative, which started work back i...

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The Charter of Rights

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2024/12/25

This week on Century of Lies: The Charter of Rights.The Scottish Government has released a new Charter of Rights for People Affected by Substance Use. The Charter was developed by an independent commission called the National Collaborative, which started work back in 2022...

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State of the Global Drug War 2024

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2024/11/27

This week on Century of Lies: State of the Global Drug War 2024.The United Nations Commission on Narcotic Drugs held a set of thematic discussions November 12 through 14. On this edition of Century hear from Chloe Carpentier, Chief of the Research and Knowledge Production ...

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Descheduling and Decolonizing Coca

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2024/11/20

This week on Century of Lies: Descheduling and Decolonizing Coca. The Commission on Narcotic Drugs just completed a set of intersessional meetings in Vienna, Austria, which were held November 12 through 14. One of the topics under discussion was the international scheduling...

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Decriminalizing and Decolonizing Coca

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2024/11/13

This week on Century of Lies: Decriminalizing and Decolonizing Coca.The nations of Colombia and Bolivia held an event at the United Nations in New York on November Seventh to challenge the negative connotation attributed to the coca plant. The event was entitled "Beyond De...

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Civilly Disobedient

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2024/10/23

This week on Century of Lies: Civilly Disobedient.Dana Larsen is a political activist, business owner, and drug policy reform movement leader located in Vancouver, BC. On Thursday October, 17, Dana’s Mushroom Dispensary and Microdose Cafe in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside w...

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Respecting the Rights and Dignity of People Who Use...

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2024/10/16

This week on Century of Lies: Respecting the Rights and Dignity of People Who Use Drugs. From 2020 until the arrests in 2023, the Drug User Liberation Front provided a safe supply of drugs to a small number of people who use drugs in that part of northern Abya Yala known ...

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Oregon Post-Recrim: Deflection and Diversion

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2024/10/02

This week on Century of Lies: Oregon Post-Recrim: Deflection and Diversion.Loyal listeners will recall that my home state of Oregon recently took a big step backwards in drug policy by recriminalizing the simple possession of small amounts of some drugs. Some friends have ...

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The Courage To Do What Works

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2024/09/25

This week on Century of Lies: The Courage To Do What Works. Professor Sir John Strang, MD, is a clinical academic and one of the world’s leading addictions researchers. He was Principal Investigator in the Randomised Injectable Opiate Treatment Trial in the UK, which compar...

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Psychedelics and PTSD Treatment

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2024/09/11

This week on Century of Lies: Psychedelics and PTSD Treatment. The Reagan-Udall Foundation for the Food and Drug Administration is a nonprofit organization that was created by Congress to advance the mission of the FDA. The Foundation held a meeting recently entitled “Advan...

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Overdose Awareness

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2024/09/04

This week on Century of Lies: Overdose Awareness.The New South Wales Users and AIDS Association is a peer-based drug user organisation. NUAA strives to improve advocacy for, and services supporting, the diversity of people impacted by stigma and discrimination caused by th...

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Nitazenes

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2024/08/28

This week on Century of Lies: Nitazenes.International Overdose Awareness Day is observed annually on August 31. The first observance was organized in 2001 by S-J Finn, a harm reduction worker who managed a needle and syringe service program in St. Kilda, Victoria, Austral...

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A Look Back at Seattle Hempfest

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2024/08/21

This week on Century of Lies: A Look Back At Seattle Hempfest.In August 1991, a group of weed activists and freedom lovers gathered in Volunteer Park in Seattle, Washington for the Washington Hemp Expo. From these modest beginnings grew the largest protestival in the world...

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FDA Rejects MAPS MDMA-Assisted Therapy

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2024/08/14

This week on Century of Lies: FDA Rejects MAPS MDMA-Assisted Therapy.On August Ninth, the Food and Drug Administration formally rejected a New Drug Application submitted by Lykos Therapeutics for its MDMA-Assisted Therapy. While this news came as a shock to some, back in J...

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Birth Behind Bars

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2024/08/07

This week on Century of Lies: Birth Behind Bars.The Senate Judiciary’s Subcommittee on Human Rights and the Law held a hearing recently to shine a light on the pervasive abuse of pregnant women in prisons around the country. We hear from Senator Jon Ossoff; Jessica Umberg...

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Incarceration and Crime

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2024/07/31

This week on Century of Lies: Incarceration and Crime.The Sentencing Project has released a new report entitled “Incarceration & Crime: A Weak Relationship,” which illustrates that less imprisonment often happens alongside improvements to community safety. They held a webi...

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Stigma

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2024/07/24

This week on Century of Lies: Stigma.Since 2015, the Stigma Indicators Monitoring Project at the University of New South Wales has documented the expression and experiences of stigma and discrimination towards people affected by blood borne viruses and sexually transmitte...

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Launch of the European Union Drugs Agency

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2024/07/17

This week on Century of Lies: Launch of the European Union Drugs Agency.The European Monitoring Centre on Drugs and Drug Addiction was the European Union’s drugs monitoring agency. Technically the EMCDDA is no more but it hasn’t closed, it’s changed: The EMCDDA is now call...

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