The Business of Drugs

The Business of Drugs

2020 1 Seasons ⭐ 6.947
Documentary Crime

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

Seasons

1. Cocaine

2020-07-14 • ⭐ 8.5

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

2. Synthetics

2020-07-14 • ⭐ 8.5

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

3. Heroin

2020-07-14 • ⭐ 8.5

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.

4. Meth

2020-07-14 • ⭐ 8.5

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

5. Cannabis

2020-07-14 • ⭐ 8.5

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

6. Opioids

2020-07-14 • ⭐ 8.5

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

Top Cast

Amaryllis Fox
Amaryllis Fox

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