← The Business of Drugs

Limited Series

6 episodes · 2020

  1. 1

    Cocaine

    Jul 14, 202046 min★ 7.2

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

  2. 2

    Synthetics

    Jul 14, 202039 min★ 7.4

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

  3. 3

    Heroin

    Jul 14, 202040 min★ 6.9

    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.

  4. 4

    Meth

    Jul 14, 202047 min★ 6.8

    Meth's global menace infects Myanmar, where complex politics and history have made it Southeast Asia's ground zero for production and distribution.

  5. 5

    Cannabis

    Jul 14, 202044 min★ 6.9

    Despite the legalization of pot in California, roughly 80% of the state's cannabis sales still occur on the black market. Fox examines why.

  6. 6

    Opioids

    Jul 14, 202040 min★ 7.0

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