TV Series
★6.9(134 votes)
20201 Season6 EpisodesEndedThe Business of Drugs
DocumentaryCrime
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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Limited Series
6 EpisodesEP 01
01.Cocaine
46m★ 8
2020-07-14
01.Cocaine
46m★ 8
Aired 2020-07-14
From farming to smuggling to sales, former CIA analyst Amaryllis Fox investigates cocaine's hugely profitable and disturbingly deadly business cycle.
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EP 02
02.Synthetics
39m★ 8
2020-07-14
02.Synthetics
39m★ 8
Aired 2020-07-14
Despite 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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EP 03
03.Heroin
40m★ 8
2020-07-14
03.Heroin
40m★ 8
Aired 2020-07-14
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.
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EP 04
04.Meth
47m★ 8
2020-07-14
04.Meth
47m★ 8
Aired 2020-07-14
Meth'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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EP 05
05.Cannabis
44m★ 8
2020-07-14
05.Cannabis
44m★ 8
Aired 2020-07-14
Despite 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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EP 06
06.Opioids
40m★ 8
2020-07-14
06.Opioids
40m★ 8
Aired 2020-07-14
Fox explores how highly addictive oxycodone continues to cause unprecedented destruction across America and even pushes addicts toward heroin.
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