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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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Season 1

7.4/10140 votes
Synthetics
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 7/14/2020
Despite its potential therapeutic benefits, MDMA is pushed into the shadows where it — along with synthetic analogs — have become popular party drugs.
Director: Jesse Sweet
Writer: Amaryllis Fox
7.2/10164 votes
Cocaine
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 7/14/2020
From farming to smuggling to sales, former CIA analyst Amaryllis Fox investigates cocaine's hugely profitable and disturbingly deadly business cycle.
Director: Jesse Sweet
Writer: Amaryllis Fox
7.0/10109 votes
Opioids
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 7/14/2020
Fox explores how highly addictive oxycodone continues to cause unprecedented destruction across America and even pushes addicts toward heroin.
Director: Jesse Sweet
Writer: Amaryllis Fox
6.9/10114 votes
Heroin
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 7/14/2020
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.
Director: Jesse Sweet
Writer: Unknown
6.9/10117 votes
Cannabis
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 7/14/2020
Despite the legalization of pot in California, roughly 80% of the state's cannabis sales still occur on the black market. Fox examines why.
Director: Jesse Sweet
Writer: Unknown
6.8/10109 votes
Meth
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 7/14/2020
Meth's global menace infects Myanmar, where complex politics and history have made it Southeast Asia's ground zero for production and distribution.
Director: Jesse Sweet
Writer: Amaryllis Fox