The Business of Drugs(2020)

6.9
1 Seasons
DocumentaryCrime

Overview

To detail how drugs push people into risky — even deadly — behaviors, a former CIA analyst investigates the economics of six illicit substances.

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Episodes

Cocaine
Ep 1

Cocaine

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

14/07/202046 min
Synthetics
Ep 2

Synthetics

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

14/07/202039 min
Heroin
Ep 3

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.

14/07/202040 min
Meth
Ep 4

Meth

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

14/07/202047 min
Cannabis
Ep 5

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.

14/07/202044 min
Opioids
Ep 6

Opioids

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

14/07/202040 min

Show Info

StatusEnded
NetworkNetflix
TypeMiniseries

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