Episode
The Business of Drugs: Opioids
Overview
Fox explores how highly addictive oxycodone continues to cause unprecedented destruction across America and even pushes addicts toward heroin.
Details
- Series
- The Business of Drugs
- Season
- Season 1
- Episode
- Episode 6
- Air date
- 2020-07-14
- Runtime
- 40 min
Episode context
Opioids is Episode 6 in Limited Series of The Business of Drugs. It aired on 2020-07-14. The runtime is 40 min.
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