In 1973, Dr. Mutulu Shakur, stepfather of the late Tupac Shakur, along with members of the Black Panther Party and the Young Lords, combined community healthcare with radical politics to create the first acupuncture detoxification program in the United States. Over the course of the 1970s, the Lincoln Detox Peoples’ Program became a fixture of hope in the South Bronx helping thousands of people kick heroin and/or methadone. Dope Is Death explores why this program was considered a threat to the political and social stability of the Nation, while cementing the legacy of its founders.

Dope Is Death is a participant of Project: Hatched 2021.