The Business of Drugs

The Business of Drugs

2020 · Documentary, Crime · 1 Season · 6 Episodes · 6.9

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

Episodes

1. Cocaine46m · 2020-07-14 · 8.0From farming to smuggling to sales, former CIA analyst Amaryllis Fox investigates cocaine's hugely profitable and disturbingly deadly business cycle.2. Synthetics39m · 2020-07-14 · 8.0Despite its potential therapeutic benefits, MDMA is pushed into the shadows where it — along with synthetic analogs — have become popular party drugs.3. Heroin40m · 2020-07-14 · 8.0Fox 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.4. Meth47m · 2020-07-14 · 8.0Meth's global menace infects Myanmar, where complex politics and history have made it Southeast Asia's ground zero for production and distribution.5. Cannabis44m · 2020-07-14 · 8.0Despite the legalization of pot in California, roughly 80% of the state's cannabis sales still occur on the black market. Fox examines why.6. Opioids40m · 2020-07-14 · 8.0Fox explores how highly addictive oxycodone continues to cause unprecedented destruction across America and even pushes addicts toward heroin.

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