Season
The Business of Drugs: Limited Series
Overview
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Details
- Series
- The Business of Drugs
- Season
- Season 1
- Air date
- 2020-07-14
- Episodes
- 6 episodes
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.