The Business of Drugs
TV-MA2020•45m•6.9/10
DocumentaryCrime
Ratings
🎬TMDb
6.9/10(131)
To detail how drugs push people into risky — even deadly — behaviors, a former CIA analyst investigates the economics of six illicit substances.
Production
UCP
Language
EN
Status
Ended
First Aired
July 14, 2020
Last Aired
July 14, 2020
Networks
Netflix
Trailers & Videos
Where to Watch
Region US · Lang EN
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Seasons & Episodes
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Season
E1
Cocaine
Air date: 2020-07-14
From farming to smuggling to sales, former CIA analyst Amaryllis Fox investigates cocaine's hugely profitable and disturbingly deadly business cycle.
E2
Synthetics
Air date: 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.
E3
Heroin
Air date: 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.
E4
Meth
Air date: 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.
E5
Cannabis
Air date: 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.
E6
Opioids
Air date: 2020-07-14
Fox explores how highly addictive oxycodone continues to cause unprecedented destruction across America and even pushes addicts toward heroin.
Cast
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