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Lincoln Detox was a drug detoxification clinic in Lincoln Hospital in theSouth Bronx. It was founded in 1970 by members and affiliates of the Black Panther Party, the Republic of New Afrika, the Young Lords, and Students for a Democratic Society. The clinic offered holistic drug rehabilitation, employing acupuncture, political education classes informed, among other ideologies, by Marxism, and community service.
In the program, participants learned about their addiction within a political context, exploring how their addiction harmed themselves, their family, and their community The program also explored the role of governmental institutions such as the CIA in drug trafficking and profiteering as well as how drug addiction has worked against progressive and revolutionary change.
Mutulu Shakur worked at the clinic for years before becoming an FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitive and going underground.
The clinic was shut down by Ed Koch and Lincoln Hospital on November 27, 1978.[1]
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- Churchill, Ward Vander Wall. The COINTELPRO Papers: documents from the FBI's secret wars against dissent. 2002. p. 309.
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