The Business of Drugs
To detail how drugs push people into risky — even deadly — behaviors, a former CIA analyst investigates the economics of six illicit substances.
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1.Cocaine
10.014-07-202046mFrom farming to smuggling to sales, former CIA analyst Amaryllis Fox investigates cocaine's hugely profitable and disturbingly deadly business cycle.
2.Synthetics
10.014-07-202039mDespite its potential therapeutic benefits, MDMA is pushed into the shadows where it — along with synthetic analogs — have become popular party drugs.
3.Heroin
10.014-07-202040mFox 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.Meth
10.014-07-202047mMeth's global menace infects Myanmar, where complex politics and history have made it Southeast Asia's ground zero for production and distribution.
5.Cannabis
10.014-07-202044mDespite the legalization of pot in California, roughly 80% of the state's cannabis sales still occur on the black market. Fox examines why.
6.Opioids
10.014-07-202040mFox explores how highly addictive oxycodone continues to cause unprecedented destruction across America and even pushes addicts toward heroin.
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