The Business of Drugs

The Business of Drugs

To detail how drugs push people into risky — even deadly — behaviors, a former CIA analyst investigates the economics of six illicit substances.

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Seasons

Cocaine

1. Cocaine

Air Date: 2020-07-14

From farming to smuggling to sales, former CIA analyst Amaryllis Fox investigates cocaine's hugely profitable and disturbingly deadly business cycle.

Synthetics

2. Synthetics

Air Date: 2020-07-14

Despite its potential therapeutic benefits, MDMA is pushed into the shadows where it — along with synthetic analogs — have become popular party drugs.

Heroin

3. Heroin

Air Date: 2020-07-14

Fox travels to Kenya, where she speaks to people living and working on the front lines of one of the world's newest and most profitable heroin routes.

Meth

4. Meth

Air Date: 2020-07-14

Meth's global menace infects Myanmar, where complex politics and history have made it Southeast Asia's ground zero for production and distribution.

Cannabis

5. Cannabis

Air Date: 2020-07-14

Despite the legalization of pot in California, roughly 80% of the state's cannabis sales still occur on the black market. Fox examines why.

Opioids

6. Opioids

Air Date: 2020-07-14

Fox explores how highly addictive oxycodone continues to cause unprecedented destruction across America and even pushes addicts toward heroin.

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Rating

7.0/10

Release Date

2020-07-14

Episodes

6 (1 seasons)

Status

Ended

Cast

Videos

Production Companies

UCP

UCP