eVideo
hoopla Instant
Dope Is Death
Year
2021
Language
ENGLISH
Duration
1h 22m
Rating
NR
CC
Performers
Mutulu Shakur
Directed By
Mia Donovan
Publication Information
Utopia
Summary
Official selection, Hot Docs, CPH:DOX, DOC NYC, True/False. DOPE IS DEATH is a remarkable collection of interviews and archival footage of the Bronx in the early 1970s, when Dr. Mutulu Shakur, stepfather of Tupac Shakur, and a coalition of left-wing activists from the Young Lords and Black Panthers, combined community health with radical politics to create Lincoln Detox - the first acupuncture detoxification program in America. Dope is Death presents a profound story of empowered community healing to save a marginalized community from a heroin epidemic and tracks the oppressive government systems that resisted this alternative approach to holistic treatments.