Episode
The Business of Drugs: Synthetics
Overview
Despite its potential therapeutic benefits, MDMA is pushed into the shadows where it — along with synthetic analogs — have become popular party drugs.
Details
- Series
- The Business of Drugs
- Season
- Season 1
- Episode
- Episode 2
- Air date
- 2020-07-14
- Runtime
- 39 min
Episode context
Synthetics is Episode 2 in Limited Series of The Business of Drugs. It aired on 2020-07-14. The runtime is 39 min.
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