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: Undoing Drugs Pt 1 - A conversation with award-winning journalist and best-selling author Maia Szalavitz whose most recent book Undoing Drugs: The Untold Story of Harm Reduction and the Future of Addiction has just been released in paperback.

Maia Szalavitz
Maia Szalavitz, Drug War Facts
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This week on Century of Lies: Cost barriers and naloxone availability – a conversation with Evan Peet, PhD, an economist at the RAND Corporation, a professor at Pardee RAND Graduate School, and one of the co-authors of an article published August 19 in JAMA Health Forum entitled “Trends in Out-of-Pocket Costs for Naloxone by Drug Brand and Payer in the US, 2010-2018.”

Evan Peet, PhD, RAND Corporation
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This week on Century of Lies: International Overdose Awareness Day is August 31. We talk with Haven Wheelock, Drug Users Health Services Program Supervisor at Outside In in Portland, Oregon.

Haven Wheelock, Drug Users Health Services Program
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This week on Century of Lies: California Senate Bill 57, sponsored by Sen. Scott Wiener, legislation that would allow some jurisdictions to authorize the establishment of supervised consumption sites, goes to the desk of Governor Gavin Newsom; the Senate Judiciary Committee hears from Dr.

Rivka Kushner
Sen. Scott Wiener, Drug War Facts
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This week on Century of Lies: Support Grows For Harm Reduction. The Connecticut General Assembly’s Joint Public Health Committee hears from Sam Rivera, Executive Director of OnPoint, the New York nonprofit that operates two supervised consumption sites in the city of New York.

Sam Rivera
Sam Rivera, OnPoint
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This week on Century of Lies: Decriminalization and human rights.

 Doctor Nuno Capaz
Nuno Capaz, Portuguese Dissuasion Commission
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This week on Century of Lies: Marcos, Duterte, the ICC, and the Philippine Drug War. We hear from Justine Balane, human rights activist in the Philippines; Ruben Carranza, International Center for Transitional Justice; human rights activist and former Italian Senator Marco Perduca; and David Borden, executive director of DRCNet and StopTheDrugWar.org.

Marco Perduca
Marco Perduca, Stop the Drug War
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This week on Century of Lies: Aligning drug policies with human rights. We hear from Elina Steinerte, Member of the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention; Judy Chang, Executive Director of the International Network of People Who Use Drugs and Melissa Upreti, Chairperson of the UN Working Group on Discrimination Against Women and Girls.

Judy Chang
Elina Steinerte, International Network of People Who Use Drugs
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This week on Century of Lies: Part two of host Doug McVay's conversation with Judy Chang, Executive Director of the International Network of People Who Use Drugs (INPUD); plus, we talk with Tera Hurst, Executive Director of the Oregon Health Justice Recovery Alliance, about decriminalization of people who use drugs and Oregon’s Drug Addiction Treatment and Recovery Act.

Tera Hurst
Judy Chang, International Network of People Who Use Drugs (INPUD
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This week on Century: Balancing the Scales - A conversation with Judy Chang, Executive Director of the International Network of People Who Use Drugs (INPUD).

Judy Chang
Judy Chang, International Network of People Who Use Drugs
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