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Negotiating Dramatic Events, ep.2

Airs at: Wed, 06/21/2023 at 9:00am - 9:30am
  Today, Grace Growing Medicine Reed will be joined by Keith Carlile, and they have a talk about how they met, and how ultimately their meeting awakened a reverance for the concept of being seen, heard and understood, what this means to all of us, and its importance for ou... Read more

FDA Rejects MAPS MDMA-Assisted Therapy

Airs at: Wed, 08/14/2024 at 12:00am - 12:30am
Produced for:  Century Of Lies
This week on Century of Lies: FDA Rejects MAPS MDMA-Assisted Therapy. On August Ninth, the Food and Drug Administration formally rejected a New Drug Application submitted by Lykos Therapeutics for its MDMA-Assisted Therapy. While this news came as a shock to some, back in J... Read more

Birth Behind Bars

Airs at: Wed, 08/07/2024 at 12:00am - 12:30am
Produced for:  Century Of Lies
This week on Century of Lies: Birth Behind Bars. The Senate Judiciary’s Subcommittee on Human Rights and the Law held a hearing recently to shine a light on the pervasive abuse of pregnant women in prisons around the country. We hear from Senator Jon Ossoff; Jessica Umberg... Read more

You Will Get Through This

Airs at: Sun, 08/04/2024 at 8:30am - 9:00am
Produced for:  Pathways
Dr. Nicole Helverson is a clinical psychologist who provides therapy in community behavioral health, inpatient psychiatric hospitals, and group practice settings. She specializes in depression, grief, eating disorders and anxiety.  She is the author, along with Julie Radico... Read more

Filmmaker Sandra Luckow on her Cai Emmons documentary "Vanishing: A Love Story"

Airs at: Thu, 07/25/2024 at 5:45pm - 6:00pm
Produced for:  Evening News, News In Depth
I had the great pleasure of interviewing writer Cai Emmons five times for KBOO before she ended her life in January 2023 through Oregon’s Death With Dignity program. Cai was diagnosed with bulbar onset ALS in early 2021, at the age of 70. It’s a debilitating disease, which... Read more

The Yoga of Ancient Space

Airs at: Fri, 07/26/2024 at 8:00pm - 10:00pm
Produced for:  Squirrels Know
  Join Ender Black on another cosmogonic, histrionic, supersonic and highly tonic episode of Squirrels Know!  We take a moment to breathe in and breathe out; we recognize our childhood behaviors we now want to let go of, and we embrace a process of adulthood within an ever... Read more

Stigma

Airs at: Wed, 07/24/2024 at 12:00am - 12:30am
Produced for:  Century Of Lies
This week on Century of Lies: Stigma. Since 2015, the Stigma Indicators Monitoring Project at the University of New South Wales has documented the expression and experiences of stigma and discrimination towards people affected by blood borne viruses and sexually transmitte... Read more

Why “Excited Delirium” is a Fraud

Airs at: Mon, 07/29/2024 at 6:30pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Prison Pipeline
In June 2024 the Mental Health Association of Portland held its Law & Mental Health Conference with a focus on psychosis. Joanna Naples-Mitchell presented “Why ‘Excited Delirium’ is a Fraud”.  In March 2022, Physicians for Human Rights published a report which she co-author... Read more

Launch of the European Union Drugs Agency

Airs at: Wed, 07/17/2024 at 12:00am - 12:30am
Produced for:  Century Of Lies
This week on Century of Lies: Launch of the European Union Drugs Agency. The European Monitoring Centre on Drugs and Drug Addiction was the European Union’s drugs monitoring agency. Technically the EMCDDA is no more but it hasn’t closed, it’s changed: The EMCDDA is now call... Read more

Lines for Life

Airs at: Mon, 07/22/2024 at 6:30pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Prison Pipeline
Adam Carpinelli interviews Martin Lockett from the organization Lines for Life.  Lines for Life is Oregon’s home for the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline providing help and hope to individuals and communities through mental health and substance abuse prevention programs and cr... Read more