TV series
The Business of Drugs
Overview
To detail how drugs push people into risky — even deadly — behaviors, a former CIA analyst investigates the economics of six illicit substances.
Details
- First air date
- 2020-07-14
- Status
- Ended
- Seasons
- 1 season
- Episodes
- 6 episodes
- Genres
- Documentary, Crime
- Network
- Netflix
- Production
- UCP
- Country
- US
- Original language
- EN
Cast
- Amaryllis Fox as Self
- Ann Shulgin as Self - Author
- Alexander Shulgin as Self - Chemist (archive footage)
Creators and crew
- Nick Carew - Producer
- Jesse Sweet - Producer
- Gillian Brown - Producer
- Jesse Sweet - Director
- Amaryllis Fox - Writer
Episodes
Episode 1: Cocaine
From farming to smuggling to sales, former CIA analyst Amaryllis Fox investigates cocaine's hugely profitable and disturbingly deadly business cycle.
Episode 2: Synthetics
Despite its potential therapeutic benefits, MDMA is pushed into the shadows where it — along with synthetic analogs — have become popular party drugs.
Episode 3: Heroin
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.
Episode 4: Meth
Meth's global menace infects Myanmar, where complex politics and history have made it Southeast Asia's ground zero for production and distribution.
Episode 5: Cannabis
Despite the legalization of pot in California, roughly 80% of the state's cannabis sales still occur on the black market. Fox examines why.
Episode 6: Opioids
Fox explores how highly addictive oxycodone continues to cause unprecedented destruction across America and even pushes addicts toward heroin.
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