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The Business of Drugs: Season 1

Limited Series 2020
TV-MA

  • 2020-07-14T08:00:00Z on Netflix
  • 45m
  • 4h 13m (6 episodes)
  • United States
  • English
  • Documentary, Crime
To detail how drugs push people into risky — even deadly — behaviors, a former CIA analyst investigates the economics of six illicit substances.

6 episodes

Series Premiere

2020-07-14T08:00:00Z

1x01 Cocaine

Series Premiere

1x01 Cocaine

  • 2020-07-14T08:00:00Z45m

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

2020-07-14T08:00:00Z

1x02 Synthetics

1x02 Synthetics

  • 2020-07-14T08:00:00Z39m

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

2020-07-14T08:00:00Z

1x03 Heroin

1x03 Heroin

  • 2020-07-14T08:00:00Z39m

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.

2020-07-14T08:00:00Z

1x04 Meth

1x04 Meth

  • 2020-07-14T08:00:00Z46m

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

2020-07-14T08:00:00Z

1x05 Cannabis

1x05 Cannabis

  • 2020-07-14T08:00:00Z44m

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

Season Finale

2020-07-14T08:00:00Z

1x06 Opioids

Season Finale

1x06 Opioids

  • 2020-07-14T08:00:00Z40m

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

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