"We will fight heroin & methadone addiction by any means necessary" 06 March 2020 Factual 78 mins
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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Mutulu Shakur as Self
Mia Donovan Editor
United States 06 March 2020
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