The Best Episodes of The Business of Drugs Season 1

#1 Fan Favorite
7.2/10(164 votes)
#1 - Cocaine
S1:E17/14/2020
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
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Director:Jesse Sweet
Writer:Amaryllis Fox
7.4/10(140 votes)
#2 - Synthetics
S1:E27/14/2020
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
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Director:Jesse Sweet
Writer:Amaryllis Fox
6.9/10(114 votes)
#3 - Heroin
S1:E37/14/2020
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
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Director:Jesse Sweet
Writer:Unknown
6.8/10(109 votes)
#4 - Meth
S1:E47/14/2020
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
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Director:Jesse Sweet
Writer:Amaryllis Fox
6.9/10(117 votes)
#5 - Cannabis
S1:E57/14/2020
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
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Director:Jesse Sweet
Writer:Unknown
7.0/10(109 votes)
#6 - Opioids
S1:E67/14/2020
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
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Director:Jesse Sweet
Writer:Amaryllis Fox