The Business of Drugs (2020)
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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Episode 1 - Cocaine
Release Date: 2020-07-14From farming to smuggling to sales, former CIA analyst Amaryllis Fox investigates cocaine's hugely profitable and disturbingly deadly business cycle.
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Episode 2 - Synthetics
Release Date: 2020-07-14Despite its potential therapeutic benefits, MDMA is pushed into the shadows where it — along with synthetic analogs — have become popular party drugs.
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Episode 3 - Heroin
Release Date: 2020-07-14Fox 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.
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Episode 4 - Meth
Release Date: 2020-07-14Meth's global menace infects Myanmar, where complex politics and history have made it Southeast Asia's ground zero for production and distribution.
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Episode 5 - Cannabis
Release Date: 2020-07-14Despite the legalization of pot in California, roughly 80% of the state's cannabis sales still occur on the black market. Fox examines why.
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Episode 6 - Opioids
Release Date: 2020-07-14Fox explores how highly addictive oxycodone continues to cause unprecedented destruction across America and even pushes addicts toward heroin.