Dope Is Death
2020
8.0 (1)
1 hr 18 min
English
We will fight heroin & methadone addiction by any means necessary
The story of how Dr. Mutulu Shakur, stepfather of Tupac Shakur, along with the Black Panthers and the Young Lords, combined community health with radical politics to create the first acupuncture detoxification program in America in 1973 — a visionary project eventually deemed too dangerous to exist in America.
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- Released
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- EyeSteelFilm, Utopia
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Top Cast
Mutulu Shakur as Self
Top Crew
Mia Donovan · Director, Cinematographer
Ramachandra Borcar · Composer
Glauco Bermudez · Cinematographer
Bob Moore · Producer
Daniel Cross · Executive Producer
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