The Business of Drugs

Limited Series

6 episodes · Jul 14, 2020

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  • Cocaine
    S1E1

    Cocaine

    Jul 14, 202046m

    From farming to smuggling to sales, former CIA analyst Amaryllis Fox investigates cocaine's hugely profitable and disturbingly deadly business cycle.

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  • Synthetics
    S1E2

    Synthetics

    Jul 14, 202039m

    Despite its potential therapeutic benefits, MDMA is pushed into the shadows where it — along with synthetic analogs — have become popular party drugs.

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  • Heroin
    S1E3

    Heroin

    Jul 14, 202040m

    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.

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  • Meth
    S1E4

    Meth

    Jul 14, 202047m

    Meth's global menace infects Myanmar, where complex politics and history have made it Southeast Asia's ground zero for production and distribution.

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  • Cannabis
    S1E5

    Cannabis

    Jul 14, 202044m

    Despite the legalization of pot in California, roughly 80% of the state's cannabis sales still occur on the black market. Fox examines why.

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  • Opioids
    S1E6

    Opioids

    Jul 14, 202040m

    Fox explores how highly addictive oxycodone continues to cause unprecedented destruction across America and even pushes addicts toward heroin.

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