The Business of Drugs

Synopsis

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

First Air Date: 2020-07-14

Last Air Date: 2020-07-14

Number of Seasons: 1

Number of Episodes: 6

Networks: Netflix

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Ep. 1: Cocaine (2020-07-14)

From farming to smuggling to sales, former CIA analyst Amaryllis Fox investigates cocaine's hugely profitable and disturbingly deadly business cycle.
Ep. 2: Synthetics (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.
Ep. 3: Heroin (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.
Ep. 4: Meth (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.
Ep. 5: Cannabis (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.
Ep. 6: Opioids (2020-07-14)

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