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The Business of Drugs

Limited Series

2020 · 6 episodes

  1. 1. Cocaine

    2020-07-14 · 46m

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

  2. 2. Synthetics

    2020-07-14 · 39m

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

  3. 3. Heroin

    2020-07-14 · 40m

    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.

  4. 4. Meth

    2020-07-14 · 47m

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

  5. 5. Cannabis

    2020-07-14 · 44m

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

  6. 6. Opioids

    2020-07-14 · 40m

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

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