Film Screening: Exploring the Impact of Methadone on Communities of Color
Tomorrow!
Join “Swallow This” Directors in a Conversation About Methadone’s Impact on Communities of Color
COVID-19 changed everything. It opened up the closed world of methadone clinics across the U.S. For decades, clinics resisted any fundamental reforms to onerous regulations. The pandemic forced opioid treatment programs (OTPs) to offer 14 or 28 day take-home bottles of medicine to all patients. Many patients experienced a liberation they never knew was possible. Almost over night, the six-day a week drudgery of standing in line to get medicated was gone and lives no longer revolved around traveling to an OTP at 4am.
It was FREEDOM.
Swallow THIS: A Documentary About Methadone and COVID-19 uncovers what happened in opioid treatment programs during the pandemic.
Join the directors and The Greater Harlem Coalition in a free screening and conversation with the directors on Saturday, October 14th, at 2:00 PM in the Lakeview Apartments’s Community Room.
Lakeview Apartments 4 East 107th Street New York, NY 10029
In bracingly honest interviews with patients and clinic staff across the country, directors Marilena Marchetti and Helen Redmond learned that the new take-homes policy was adopted inconsistently and many OTPs had returned to daily, in-person dosing.
Methadone clinics were created in the 1970s during the Nixon presidency and were designed to control, surveil, and punish Black and brown patients. Now is the time to shut down these apartheid, carceral facilities and allow methadone to be picked up at the pharmacy. It is time to free people who take methadone. Swallow THIS is a call to action to abolish methadone clinics.
Marchetti and Redmond are co-directors of Liquid Handcuffs: A Documentary to Free Methadone.
Runtime: 27 mins.
25th Precinct Council Meeting Moved to Thursday
October meeting has a date change due to a scheduling conflict. We will be meeting on
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 19th at 6 PM at BETHEL GOSPEL ASSEMBLY Enter on 120th between Madison and Fifth Avenue Across from Marcus Garvey Park PLEASE BE ON TIME
WEAR SOMETHING PINK
OR PURPLE
IN HONOR OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE/BREAST CANCERWE WILL MAKE A SPECIAL TRIBUTE AT THE END OF THE MEETING TOGETHER
