DOPE IS DEATH
- History
- Health & Fitness · Alternative Health
- Society & Culture · Documentary
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By the early 1970s, heroin was flooding the streets of New York City. Black and Puerto Rican neighbourhoods like Harlem and the South Bronx were hardest hit. This four part podcast series explores how Dr. Mutulu Shakur, stepfather of the late Tupac Shakur, along with members of the Black Panther Party and the Young Lords, combined community health with radical politics to create the first acupuncture detoxification program in America. Over the course of the 1970s, the Lincoln Detox People’s Program became a fixture of hope in the South Bronx and detoxed thousands of people off of drugs. DOPE IS...
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Recent episodes
- Episode 4 – ‘Policing the Minds of the People’
- Episode 3 – ‘Acupuncture Needles – Tools of Healing or Rebellion?’
- Episode 2 – ‘Radical Roots of Acupuncture’
- Episode 1 – ‘Come On, Put The Pins In!’