Acupuncture as Revolution

In November 1970, an amalgam of radical activists took over a section of the notorious Lincoln Hospital in the South Bronx of New York. From that action an innovative drug detoxification program evolved. The program became a movement, led by Black and Latinx Americans, that sought to employ acupuncture as a means to transform not only the heroin addiction ravaging their communities, but the capitalism, colonialism, and "chemical warfare" it saw as causative factors. Acupuncture as Revolution tra