Drugs

On this edition of Century of Lies: Support, Don’t Punish: A Public Health and Human Rights Based Approach to Drug Policy. The Fifty-Ninth Session of the UN Human Rights Council took place from June 16 to July 8. A number of side events were held in conjunction with the H... Read more

On this edition of Century of Lies: Healthcare in Jails and Prisons. The United Nations Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice recently held its Thirty-Fourth session in Vienna, Austria. This week on Century of Lies we’ll hear portions of a side event held du... Read more

On this edition of Century of Lies: Moving Beyond Punishment. The Global Commission on Drug Policy released a report recently entitled Beyond Punishment: From Criminal Justice Responses to Drug Policy Reform, which exposes how punitive drug policies have driven mass incar... Read more

On this edition of Century of Lies: By LA, For LA. On Saturday May 31, the Big Cities Health Coalition and Vital Strategies convened a panel of public health and harm reduction experts to present new national polling data and spotlight the latest stories from the front li... Read more