Dope is death
Type
Label
Dope is death
Language
eng
Characteristic
videorecording
Intended audience
Not rated
Main title
Dope is death
Runtime
82
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
Target audience
adult
Technique
live action
Contributor
Subject
- Young Lords Party -- History -- 20th century
- Black Panther Party -- History -- 20th century
- Acupuncture -- New York (State) -- New York
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired
- Drug addiction + Treatment -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 20th century
- Shakur, Mutulu, (Activist)
- Streaming video
- Bronx (New York, N.Y.) -- Social conditions -- 20th century
Content
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Composer
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Incoming Resources
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Outgoing Resources
- Contributor6
- Genre2
- Subject8
- Young Lords Party -- History -- 20th century
- Black Panther Party -- History -- 20th century
- Acupuncture -- New York (State) -- New York
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired
- Drug addiction + Treatment -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 20th century
- Shakur, Mutulu, (Activist)
- Streaming video
- Bronx (New York, N.Y.) -- Social conditions -- 20th century
- Content1
- resource.cinematographer2
- Composer1
- resource.filmdirector1
- resource.filmeditor1
- resource.filmproducer3
- Is Derivative Of1
- screenwritter1