How the Young Lords Brought the Revolution to Drug Treatment
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In front of a wall filled with agitprop posters of Malcolm X, Mao Zedong, and Puerto Rican nationalist Lolita Lebrón, doctors stuck tiny needles into the ears of a woman going through heroin withdrawal. It was 1971 and they were demonstrating a new acupuncture treatment for addiction at a detox clinic at Lincoln Hospital in the Bronx. The woman, no older than 30, had a runny nose and watery eyes and shook with chills. But after the treatment, “you could see, immediately, her withdrawal symptoms receding,” said Mickey Melendez, 73.
Read the full article in Curbed.
