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The Business of Drugs

The Business of Drugs
★ 6.9/10•2020•45m•TV-MA•Documentary•Crime
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To detail how drugs push people into risky — even deadly — behaviors, a former CIA analyst investigates the economics of six illicit substances.

StatusEnded
Runtime45m
LanguageEN
First Air DateJul 14, 2020

Episodes

Episode 1 - CocaineE146m

Cocaine

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

Jul 14, 2020

Episode 2 - SyntheticsE239m

Synthetics

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

Jul 14, 2020

Episode 3 - HeroinE340m

Heroin

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.

Jul 14, 2020

Episode 4 - MethE447m

Meth

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

Jul 14, 2020

Episode 5 - CannabisE544m

Cannabis

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

Jul 14, 2020

Episode 6 - OpioidsE640m

Opioids

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

Jul 14, 2020

Actors

Amaryllis Fox

Amaryllis Fox

Self

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