The Business of Drugs

45min

Documentary

Crime

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

Episodes

Cast

Cocaine

1. Cocaine

46min

14th Jul 2020

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

Synthetics

2. Synthetics

39min

14th Jul 2020

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

Heroin

3. Heroin

40min

14th Jul 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

4. Meth

47min

14th Jul 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

5. Cannabis

44min

14th Jul 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

6. Opioids

40min

14th Jul 2020

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

First air date

14th Jul 2020

Last air date

14th Jul 2020

Status

Ended

Type

Miniseries

Original language

en

Networks