The Business of Drugs

Limited Series

TV-MA
69%
To understand the origins and true impact of the business of drugs, a former CIA analyst investigates the economics of six illicit substances.

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6 Episodes

  • Cocaine
    E1
    CocaineFrom farming to smuggling to sales, former CIA analyst Amaryllis Fox investigates cocaine's hugely profitable and disturbingly deadly business cycle.
  • Synthetics
    E2
    SyntheticsDespite its potential therapeutic benefits, MDMA is pushed into the shadows where it — along with synthetic analogs — have become popular party drugs.
  • Heroin
    E3
    HeroinFox 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.
  • Meth
    E4
    MethMeth's global menace infects Myanmar, where complex politics and history have made it Southeast Asia's ground zero for production and distribution.
  • Cannabis
    E5
    CannabisDespite the legalization of pot in California, roughly 80% of the state's cannabis sales still occur on the black market. Fox examines why.
  • Opioids
    E6
    OpioidsFox explores how highly addictive oxycodone continues to cause unprecedented destruction across America and even pushes addicts toward heroin.
  • Amaryllis FoxSelf
  • Jesse SweetProducer
  • Nick CarewProducer

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