S1 • E3 Jan 18, 2018 45m
More Americans than ever die of heroin and painkillers. Donald Trump has announced before taking office to want to crack down on: with new harshness and sharp laws. But the US prisons are already bursting at the seams. Presenter Thorsten Eppert, in an interview with activists, victims and proponents of the drug war, is seeking answers to the question: where is the system under President Donald Trump headed? The War on Drugs, America's war on drugs, has been a fighting word since the 1970s for containing drugs in the US - with an immense budget, militarized police and laws that keep people behind bars for relatively small drug offenses. And the American drug crisis is more topical than ever: an opioid wave is flooding the country.
