‘Dope is Death’ Film & Podcast
Dope is Death is a 2020 documentary discussing the story and history of Dr. Mutulu Shakur (step-father of Tupac Shakur), alongside the Black Panthers and Young Lords in Harlem. Through protests and their passion for safe and equal community public health, they created the first acupuncture detoxification program in 1973. They created a 5-point auricular acupuncture protocol that provided holistic healthcare to marginalized and underserved communities in Harlem. I am proud to have my work featured in this film, which is currently streaming online through Vice’s Short List. I am also interviewed in Episode 1 of the ‘Dope is Death’ podcast. The image to the left is a still from one of my interviews in the film.
Watch this clip of me during the panel discussion following the February 16, 2022 screening of Dope is Death at the Brooklyn Academy of Music –>
<– Check out my interview about harm reduction in Castle Mountain Media’s film about New York Harm Reduction Educators (NYHRE) in East Harlem (now part of OnPoint NYC).
You can read the conclusions of a study I contributed to with the NYU School of Global Public Health Opioid Overdose Prevention Program as published in the Annals of Medicine in July of 2022 – U.S. Military veterans and the opioid overdose crisis: a review of risk factors and prevention efforts.
