The Business of Drugs

Limited Series

2020 · 6 episodes · 4h 16m in all · 8.0/10

Episodes

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   1. Cocaine

   14 Jul 2020 · 46 min · 8.0/10

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

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   2. Synthetics

   14 Jul 2020 · 39 min · 8.0/10

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

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   3. Heroin

   14 Jul 2020 · 40 min · 8.0/10

   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.

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   4. Meth

   14 Jul 2020 · 47 min · 8.0/10

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

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   5. Cannabis

   14 Jul 2020 · 44 min · 8.0/10

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

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   6. Opioids

   14 Jul 2020 · 40 min · 8.0/10

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