The Business of Drugs

E1. Cocaine

Jul 14, 2020 · 46m

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

E2. Synthetics

Jul 14, 2020 · 39m

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

E3. Heroin

Jul 14, 2020 · 40m

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

Jul 14, 2020 · 47m

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

Jul 14, 2020 · 44m

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

Jul 14, 2020 · 40m

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