← The Business of Drugs

Limited Series

6 episode 2020-07-14
  1. E1 · Cocaine

    E1 · Cocaine

    46 mnt

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

    2020-07-14

  2. E2 · Synthetics

    E2 · Synthetics

    39 mnt

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

    2020-07-14

  3. E3 · Heroin

    E3 · Heroin

    40 mnt

    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.

    2020-07-14

  4. E4 · Meth

    E4 · Meth

    47 mnt

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

    2020-07-14

  5. E5 · Cannabis

    E5 · Cannabis

    44 mnt

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

    2020-07-14

  6. E6 · Opioids

    E6 · Opioids

    40 mnt

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

    2020-07-14