Century of Lies


08/24/22 Evan Peet, PhD


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.”

Guest(s): Evan Peet, PhD
Organization(s): RAND Corporation

08/17/22 Haven Wheelock


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. Plus, we hear from Professor Leo Beletsky with Northeastern University School of Law and the Health In Justice Action Lab and Professor Valarie Blake with the West Virginia University School of Law about syringe services programs and the Americans with Disabilities Act.

Guest(s): Haven Wheelock
Organization(s): Drug Users Health Services Program

08/10/22 Sen. Scott Wiener


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. Malik Burnett about equitable marijuana legalization; and from Canada we hear from Rivka Kushner with CATIE about preventing, detecting, and treating hepatitis C.

Guest(s): Sen. Scott Wiener
Organization(s): Drug War Facts
Link(s): Drug War Facts

08/03/22 Sam Rivera

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.

Guest(s): Sam Rivera
Organization(s): OnPoint
Link(s): Nation’s First Supervised Drug-Injection Sites Open in New York

07/27/22 Doctor Nuno Capaz

This week on Century of Lies: Decriminalization and human rights. Brendan Minish, board member of Crain, an Irish organization that aims to combat misinformation around cannabis and advocates for drug law reform, harm reduction, and drug education, and Doctor Nuno Capaz, director of the Portuguese Dissuasion Commission, speak to the Joint Committee on Justice of Ireland’s parliament on an examination of the present approach to sanctions for possession of certain amounts of drugs for personal use; plus Richard Nininahazwe, Program Coordinator with the African Network of People who Use Drugs, and Rita Musa, National Secretary of the Drug Harm Reduction and Advocacy Network Nigeria, speaking on human rights violations against people who use drugs in sub-Saharan Africa.

Guest(s): Doctor Nuno Capaz
Organization(s): Portuguese Dissuasion Commission
Link(s): Drug War Facts

07/20/22 Marco Perduca

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.

Guest(s): Marco Perduca
Organization(s): Stop the Drug War
Link(s): Stop The Drug War

07/13/22 Elina Steinerte

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. Plus, the California Assembly passes SB57, a measure to allow some municipalities in California to establish supervised consumption sites.

Guest(s): Elina Steinerte
Organization(s): International Network of People Who Use Drugs
Link(s): International Network of People Who Use Drugs

07/06/22 Judy Chang


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.

Guest(s): Judy Chang
Organization(s): International Network of People Who Use Drugs (INPUD
Link(s): International Network of People Who Use Drugs (INPUD, Oregon Health Justice Recovery Alliance

06/29/22 Judy Chang

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

Guest(s): Judy Chang
Organization(s): International Network of People Who Use Drugs
Link(s): International Network of People Who Use Drugs

06/22/22 Alexandra Plante


This week on Century of Lies: Exploitation, Abuse, and the Substance Use Treatment Industry. Alexandra Plante, Director of Communications at the National Council for Mental Wellbeing, and Professor Carmen Albizu, MD, from the Evaluation and Evaluation Research master’s program at the Graduate School of Public Health, Medical Sciences Campus of the University of Puerto Rico, speak on the topic of Lack of Integrity and Transparency in Drug Treatment Services: Adverse Effects on Treatment Outcomes and Infringement of Human Rights.

Guest(s): Alexandra Plante
Organization(s): National Council for Mental Wellbeing
Link(s): Drug War Facts
