The Business of Drugs
Overview
To detail how drugs push people into risky — even deadly — behaviors, a former CIA analyst investigates the economics of six illicit substances.
Key Crew
Producer: Jesse Sweet, Nick Carew
Top Cast
Amaryllis Fox
Self
Seasons
Season 1 (2020)
No overview available.
6 episodes
Episodes
Episode 1: Cocaine
2020-07-14From farming to smuggling to sales, former CIA analyst Amaryllis Fox investigates cocaine's hugely profitable and disturbingly deadly business cycle.
Runtime: 46 minEpisode 2: Synthetics
2020-07-14Despite its potential therapeutic benefits, MDMA is pushed into the shadows where it — along with synthetic analogs — have become popular party drugs.
Runtime: 39 minEpisode 3: Heroin
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.
Runtime: 40 minEpisode 4: Meth
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.
Runtime: 47 minEpisode 5: Cannabis
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.
Runtime: 44 minEpisode 6: Opioids
2020-07-14Fox explores how highly addictive oxycodone continues to cause unprecedented destruction across America and even pushes addicts toward heroin.
Runtime: 40 minVideos
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