10.0/102 votesLoading...#1 - Ecstasy
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 1/8/2012
Known by users as the ultimate “love drug,” ecstasy’s euphoric high comes with major lows: Ravers have died from it and organized crime gangs will kill for it.
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10.0/102 votesLoading...#2 - Pill Nation
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 1/29/2012
Known as Hillbilly Heroin, Opiate pain pills can be found in every town and city across the United States. From the poorest trailer home to the most expensive mansion, they are tearing apart the fabric of American society.
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10.0/101 votesLoading...#3 - Aussie Ice Wars
Season 7 Episode 16 - Aired 12/2/2015
Outlaw bikers fight cops and Chinese Triads to keep control of the crystal meth trade.
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9.5/101 votesLoading...#4 - Shooting Up Suburbia
Season 7 Episode 20 - Aired 12/30/2015
In Vancouver, a suburban gang war and heavy police presence drives some dealers and their customers to move downtown. But the cops are in hot pursuit.
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8.0/102 votesLoading...#5 - Meth
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 7/11/2010
Some call methamphetamine the "Devil's Drug." Often made in less than an hour from a common cold remedy, this powerful stimulant is sweeping across the U.S. and Asia. Follow a raid on a suspected meth lab, stake out a neighborhood pharmacy where addicts attempt to accumulate cold and flu pills, and meet a neuroscientist urgently searching for a cure for addiction. See the dangers of meth and the unexpected physical damages caused by the drug.
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8.0/102 votesLoading...#6 - Crack
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 1/1/2012
Inside the world of producers, traffickers, dealers, users, doctors, and cops who make up the multi-billion-dollar industry.
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7.0/102 votesLoading...#7 - Ketamine
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 1/22/2012
Ketamine—chemically, a compound called ketamine hydrochloride—is a drug that was developed in the 1960s to sedate animals and humans for surgery, though it eventually was replaced by medications that worked faster with less risk. Beginning in the 1990s, initially to the puzzlement of police, burglars began breaking into veterinary clinics and stealing ketamine. They soon learned that recreational drug users had discovered ketamine and were turning it into the new hallucinogenic party drug. In its standard powdered form, ketamine looked like cocaine, and could be snorted in the same way. But it also could be easily modified for injecting, smoking or even mixing into drinks.
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7.0/102 votesLoading...#8 - Designer Drugs
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 2/12/2012
For a few dollars, users can access dozens of compounds that mimic cocaine, ecstasy or marijuana. Sold as “Bath Salts” or “Spice,” these drugs are entirely legal.
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7.0/102 votesLoading...#9 - High Stakes Vegas
Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 10/21/2012
The gambling mecca Sin City plays host to 40 million tourists a year. In storm drains beneath the Las Vegas strip, homeless addicts get high on crack in underground shanties, while in half-built suburbs, police battle marijuana gangs for control of the city's slump-hit homes.
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7.0/102 votesLoading...#10 - Drug Kings of New York
Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 11/18/2012
New York City is in the grip of a heroin epidemic, as a new generation of middle-class suburbanite dealers hooked on prescription pills switch to heroin, and venture down the Long Island Expressway Â- dubbed the Heroin Highway into urban Brooklyn and Queens to get their fix.
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4.0/101 votesLoading...#11 - Windy City High
Season 4 Episode 3 - Aired 8/25/2013
Chicago, the biggest open-air crack and heroin market in America is at saturation point. The result: record levels of overdoses and homicides, as gangs fight over drug turf.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#12 - Cocaine
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 7/11/2010
The supply chain of cocaine stretches around our world, bringing vast wealth to a few ... and misery to millions. Follow its trail through the eyes of peasant farmers producing cocaine paste, a trafficker tied to Mexican cartels and a 28-year-old crack dealer in Miami's poorest neighborhood. And literally see the true nature of cocaine addiction via revolutionary brain photography in a leading lab in Brookhaven, N.Y.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#13 - Heroin
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 7/12/2010
Heroin can be life threatening, claiming the lives of numerous victims. Follow this opium derivative as it begins in a remote Afghan heroin lab that processes the raw materials and then on to Chicago, where a dealer demonstrates its final preparation for street sale. Gain insight into its insidious powers from users, and witness a police raid on a heroin distribution network in New Jersey. Plus, go inside one radical attempt to combat heroin's social costs by supplying it free to addicts.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#14 - Marijuana
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 7/12/2010
Cannabis is the most widely used illicit drug on the planet. To many, it's an evil weed, but to some, it's a sacred herb, even a lifesaver. For decades the global supply was controlled by criminals, but now a quasi-legal industry worth billions of dollars is booming. Visit growers who are leading a horticultural revolution, hear from users consuming for medicinal purposes, go inside the "Green Rush" of medical marijuana in cities across the U.S. and the violent marijuana cartels in Mexico.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#15 - Hash
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 1/1/2012
A former British gangster serves as guide into this illicit underworld, visiting a secret hash-making location nestled in the mountains.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#16 - Hallucinogens
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 1/15/2012
Deep in the Amazon, Rob—a former Wall Street broker turned healer—has created a free clinic of sorts, administering the highly potent narcotic ayahuasca to trauma patients.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#17 - Grand Theft Auto
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 2/19/2012
Auto crime is the tip of a sinister global iceberg where a car stolen in LA could end up on the Russian black market or a truck taken in Laredo, Texas could become a heavily armored 'narco tank' used in Mexican Cartel gun battles.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#18 - Alaska Heroin Rush
Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 10/28/2012
Alaska has a dark secret : it has one of the biggest drug problems in America. We'll get a firsthand look at the effects of heroin and the withdrawal symptoms involved in using the drug.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#19 - Hawaiian Ice
Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 11/11/2012
In Hawaii, which has one of the highest rates of crystal meth users in the nation, National Geographic Channel cameras follow along on a raid to a drug trafficker's house to discover a woman who continues to deal crystal meth while her husband is in jail.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#20 - Hurricane Blow
Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 11/25/2012
The devastating consequences of Hurricane Katrina in Louisiana resulted in a wave of small-scale drug dealers taking over the streets of New Orleans. As a means of coping with depression and post-traumatic stress disorder, traumatized locals have turned to cocaine.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#21 - Meth Boom Montana
Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 12/9/2012
Mexican and Canadian drug gangs compete for customers in the isolated terrain in Montana as officers patrol the vast region hoping to stem the tide.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#22 - Hollywood High
Season 3 Episode 7 - Aired 12/16/2012
Heroin, cocaine and prescription pills in plentiful supply makes Los Angeles one of the biggest drug distribution hubs in the U.S.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#23 - Zombie Island
Season 3 Episode 8 - Aired 12/23/2012
The local drug scene casts a dark shadow on the sunny lifestyle of Puerto Rico, a place where addicts roam the streets in search of their next fix. For Dr. Panelli, treating abusers for jungle rot,Â"a ghastly condition that comes with using injected drugs, can be an overwhelming task.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#24 - Motor City Rush
Season 3 Episode 9 - Aired 12/30/2012
The most dangerous city in the USA, Detroit, is a perfect mark for today's growing drug industry. Dealers are learning cater to inner city clientele by selling smaller amounts of hard drugs like heroin and cocaine for single-digit prices.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#25 - Coke Kings and Queens
Season 3 Episode 10 - Aired 1/6/2013
Cocaine and marijuana drug fueled 24-hour lifestyle for Londoners.
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The Best Episodes of Drugs, Inc.
Every episode of Drugs, Inc. ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of Drugs, Inc.!
Drugs: A multi-billion-dollar industry that fuels crime and violence like no other substance on the planet. Turning cartel leaders into billionaires, the illegal drug industry...
Genres:DocumentaryCrime
Network:National Geographic
Best Episodes Summary
"Ecstasy" is the best rated episode of "Drugs, Inc.". It scored 10/10 based on 2 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 1/8/2012. This episode scored 0.0 points higher than the second highest rated, "Pill Nation".