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.
