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The Business of Drugs

6.9(133)
First Aired:July 14, 2020
Seasons:1 season
Episodes:6
Status:Ended

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

Cast

Amaryllis Fox

Amaryllis Fox

Self

Seasons

Cocaine

E1Cocaine

46m8.5

Jul 14, 2020

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

Synthetics

E2Synthetics

39m8.5

Jul 14, 2020

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

Heroin

E3Heroin

40m8.5

Jul 14, 2020

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.

Meth

E4Meth

47m8.5

Jul 14, 2020

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

Cannabis

E5Cannabis

44m8.5

Jul 14, 2020

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

Opioids

E6Opioids

40m8.5

Jul 14, 2020

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

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Storyline

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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