Dope Is Death
“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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Mia Donovan Director · Ramachandra Borcar Composer Glauco Bermudez Cinematographer
United States release March 6, 2020 · Produced in Canada · Production Utopia
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EyeSteelFilm
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Utopia
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Canada
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English
Release dates
United States · March 6, 2020
Premiere · True/False Film Festival
Canada
May 6, 2021 · internet DOXA Documentary Film Festival
Finland
January 29, 2021 · internet DocPoint - Helsinki Documentary Film Festival
Netherlands
November 22, 2020 · virtual cinema International Documentary Festival Amsterdam
Taiwan
October 3, 2021 · Taiwan International Ethnographic Film Festival
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