Episode

Drugs, Inc.: Meth

Name: Drugs, Inc.: Meth
Released: 2010-07-11
Duration: 43 min

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Overview

Some call methamphetamine the "Devil's Drug." Often made in less than an hour from a common cold remedy, this powerful stimulant is sweeping across the U.S. and Asia. Follow a raid on a suspected meth lab, stake out a neighborhood pharmacy where addicts attempt to accumulate cold and flu pills, and meet a neuroscientist urgently searching for a cure for addiction. See the dangers of meth and the unexpected physical damages caused by the drug.

Details

Series: Drugs, Inc.
Season: Season 1
Episode: Episode 2
Air date: 2010-07-11
Runtime: 43 min

Episode context

Meth is Episode 2 in Season 1 of Drugs, Inc.. It aired on 2010-07-11. The runtime is 43 min.

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Episode 1: Cocaine 2010-07-11 | 43 min The supply chain of cocaine stretches around our world, bringing vast wealth to a few ... and misery to millions. Follow its trail through the eyes of peasant farmers producing cocaine paste, a trafficker tied to Mexican cartels and a 28-year-old crack dealer in Miami's poorest neighborhood. And literally see the true nature of cocaine addiction via revolutionary brain photography in a leading lab in Brookhaven, N.Y.

Episode 3: Heroin 2010-07-12 | 43 min Heroin can be life threatening, claiming the lives of numerous victims. Follow this opium derivative as it begins in a remote Afghan heroin lab that processes the raw materials and then on to Chicago, where a dealer demonstrates its final preparation for street sale. Gain insight into its insidious powers from users, and witness a police raid on a heroin distribution network in New Jersey. Plus, go inside one radical attempt to combat heroin's social costs by supplying it free to addicts.

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