About this season
To detail how drugs push people into risky — even deadly — behaviors, a former CIA analyst investigates the economics of six illicit substances.
Episodes (6)
1. Cocaine
8.5Aired 14 July 2020 • 46 min
From farming to smuggling to sales, former CIA analyst Amaryllis Fox investigates cocaine's hugely profitable and disturbingly deadly business cycle.
2. Synthetics
8.5Aired 14 July 2020 • 39 min
Despite its potential therapeutic benefits, MDMA is pushed into the shadows where it — along with synthetic analogs — have become popular party drugs.
3. Heroin
8.5Aired 14 July 2020 • 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.
4. Meth
8.5Aired 14 July 2020 • 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.
5. Cannabis
8.5Aired 14 July 2020 • 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.
6. Opioids
8.5Aired 14 July 2020 • 40 min
Fox explores how highly addictive oxycodone continues to cause unprecedented destruction across America and even pushes addicts toward heroin.