The Business of Drugs
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Documentary
Crime
Seasons | 1
Episodes | 6
avg.Runtime | 45 min
First EP | 2020-07-14
Last EP | 2020-07-14
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Rating : 7
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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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Season List
season 1 || Limited Series
Relesed on | 2020-07-14
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Opioids
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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