
The Business of Drugs
2020 · Netflix · 40 min · 1 season
S01E06 · Opioids
Tue, 14 July, 10:00 pm
Fox explores how highly addictive oxycodone continues to cause unprecedented destruction across America and even pushes addicts towards heroin.
About
To detail how drugs push people into risky - even deadly - behaviors, a former CIA analyst investigates the economics of six illicit substances.
Episodes
- E01
Cocaine
Tue, 14 July· 45 minFrom farming to smuggling to sales, former CIA analyst Amaryllis Fox investigates cocaine's hugely profitable and disturbingly deadly business cycle.
- E02
Synthetics
Tue, 14 July· 38 minDespite its potential therapeutic benefits, MDMA is pushed into the shadows where it - along with synthetic analogs - have become popular party drugs
- E03
Heroin
Tue, 14 July· 39 minFox 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.
- E04
Meth
Tue, 14 July· 46 minMeth's global menace infects Myanmar, where complex politics and history have made it Southeast Asia's ground zero for production and distribution.
- E05
Cannabis
Tue, 14 July· 43 minDespite the legalization of pot in California, roughly 80% of the state's cannabis sales still occur on the black market. Fox examines why.
- E06
Opioids
Tue, 14 July· 40 minFox explores how highly addictive oxycodone continues to cause unprecedented destruction across America and even pushes addicts towards heroin.





