The Business of Drugs

Previous Episode

S01E06: Opioids

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

Overview

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

Episodes

Cocaine

S01E01 Cocaine

July 14, 2020 10.0 46 min
From farming to smuggling to sales, former CIA analyst Amaryllis Fox investigates cocaine's hugely profitable and disturbingly deadly business cycle.
Synthetics

S01E02 Synthetics

July 14, 2020 10.0 39 min
Despite its potential therapeutic benefits, MDMA is pushed into the shadows where it — along with synthetic analogs — have become popular party drugs.
Heroin

S01E03 Heroin

July 14, 2020 10.0 40 min
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

S01E04 Meth

July 14, 2020 10.0 47 min
Meth's global menace infects Myanmar, where complex politics and history have made it Southeast Asia's ground zero for production and distribution.
Cannabis

S01E05 Cannabis

July 14, 2020 10.0 44 min
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

S01E06 Opioids

July 14, 2020 10.0 40 min
Fox explores how highly addictive oxycodone continues to cause unprecedented destruction across America and even pushes addicts toward heroin.

Cast

Amaryllis Fox
Self

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