This week on Century of Lies: Planet Youth. Planet Youth is a community wide approach to encourage and enable people to use data and evidence to create better, healthier environments for young people and to support healthier choices around substance use. The Scottish Drugs Forum held a webinar recently to look at the application of this approach in Scotland and the progress being made.

This week on Century of Lies: Remembering Ernie Drucker. Ernest Drucker, PhD, was a brilliant man. He was also a good friend and colleague.

This week on Century of Lies: The Intersection Between Harm Reduction and Homeless Service Work. Homelessness is on the rise around the world. People who use drugs and who are unhoused, or at risk of being unhoused, are key user groups of harm reduction services.

This week on Century of Lies: Defending the Good Samaritan. Good Samaritan Laws shield people from prosecution when they call emergency services in the case of an overdose. Just because they’re shielded from being charged and convicted, does that mean they’re also shielded from being arrested?

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.

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.

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.

This week on Century of Lies: Counterfeit Benzos. In the words of the executive producer of the Drug Truth Network, Dean Becker, Because of prohibition you don't know what's in that bag. That was true well before fentanyl came along. And these days, it's not only fentanyl, and it's not only the opioid market.

Human Rights and Decolonization. The UNs Commission on Narcotic Drugs and Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice held joint meetings December 4 and 5. Topics being discussed included the WHO Expert Committees upcoming review of the coca plant. We hear from the delegates from Bolivia, Colombia, and Mexico.

This week on Century of Lies: Social Responses for Women Who Use Drugs. The European Union Drugs Agency in collaboration with the Cooperation Programme between Latin America, the Caribbean and the European Union on drug policies recently held a webinar entitled Health and social responses for women who use drugs — perspectives from Latin America, the Caribbean and Europe.