08/27/24 Nitazenes
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, Australia, and since 2012 International Overdose Awareness Day has been an initiative of the Australian nonprofit public health organization Penington Institute. The Penington Institute also puts together some tremendously informative webinars. They held one recently on the newly emerging threat of nitazenes, a class of synthetic opioid that’s been showing up recently in the US, UK, and EU. On this edition of Century we hear from two of the speakers on that panel: Tony Duffin, CEO of Ana Liffey Drug Project, an organisation that reaches people who are often taking multiple drugs, sleeping rough and experiencing mental and physical health difficulties in Ireland; and Chris Rintoul, Innovation and Harm Reduction Lead at Cranstoun, a harm reduction and social justice charity providing support services across England.