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Digital scan of newspaper spread from "Pitirre." Notable text reads: "City attacks our health center" and "Healthcare is a human right."
Volume 2, Issue 7 of newspaper from the Young Lords Organization. (Photo: Special Collections and Archives, DePaul University Library)

The Acudetox program is organized by the Young Lords, Black Panthers, and other groups at Lincoln Hospital.

1970

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Volume 2, Issue 7 of newspaper from the Young Lords Organization. (Photo: Special Collections and Archives, DePaul University Library)

The Young Lords, Black Panthers, the Republic of New Afrika (RNA), and Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) come together to organize community wellness programs at the Lincoln Detox Center in the South Bronx.

Led by Dr. Mutulu Shakur, the clinic uses acupuncture as a central modality for the holistic support of detoxing from substance abuse. The work at Lincoln Detox, which will be shut down by New York City Mayor Ed Koch in 1978, creates the first protocol that is still in use today for Acudetox.