Drugs, Inc.

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Cocaine Jul 12, 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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Meth Jul 12, 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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Heroin Jul 13, 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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Marijuana Jul 13, 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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Crack Jan 2, 2012 Inside the world of producers, traffickers, dealers, users, doctors, and cops who make up the multi-billion-dollar industry.

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Hash Jan 2, 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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Ecstasy Jan 9, 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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Hallucinogens Jan 16, 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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Ketamine Jan 23, 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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Pill Nation Jan 30, 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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Designer Drugs Feb 13, 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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High Stakes Vegas Oct 22, 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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Alaska Heroin Rush Oct 29, 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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Hawaiian Ice Nov 12, 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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Drug Kings of New York Nov 19, 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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Hurricane Blow Nov 26, 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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Meth Boom Montana Dec 10, 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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Hollywood High Dec 17, 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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San Francisco Meth Zombies Aug 12, 2013 San Francisco, Calif. — the epicenter of the 1960s' psychedelic revolution — is notorious for drugs. But in the new millennium, the city, especially the gay community, is struggling to recover from a meth epidemic. The enabler of this situation is the Asian cartel, which has been poisoning San Francisco with high quality meth for almost 25 years — but the Mexican cartels are intent on taking over. Nat Geo goes inside one of the worst drug ghettos in America — the heart of the drug trade.

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Jamaican Gangs, Guns and Ganja Aug 19, 2013 Kingston is in the hands of highly organized and warring drug gangs. They manage drug trafficking and distribution at all levels. With the patronage of politicians, they fight hard to protect their turf in a city where poverty and guns drive the drug trade.

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Windy City High Aug 26, 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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High in Houston Sep 2, 2013 Houston's drug hub is the 'Bloody Nickel' - the Fifth Ward. Five square miles of 24/7 drug and party action. Gangs work across the ethnic divide to keep the drugs flowing; while cops and Cartels vie with each other for control.

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Rocky Mountain High Sep 16, 2013 Denver - the mile high city - has just legalized recreational use of Marijuana. The city's gang-banger dealers have battled falling profits since medical Marijuana became law, and forced them to push new products. This latest move is last straw.

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Miami Vices Sep 23, 2013 Miami - once America's cocaine capital; but no more. The War on Drugs has hit home. Today dealers and users play cat and mouse with the cops and live in dread of the Feds. And a new look drug scene has gone underground.

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Philly Dope Sep 30, 2013 In Kensington north Philadelphia, heroin, crack cocaine and PCP are dealt from a hundred different corners. Kensington is a giant drug drive thru. But for the addicts and dealers it's a deadly trap that threatens to drive them literally insane.

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Breakdown Jul 3, 2014 A look at the fight against the country's most dangerous dealers and the biggest producers. From smuggling at JFK International Airport to cartel kingpins in Arizona, U.S law enforcement is fighting the global trade

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Salt Lake Sinners Jul 10, 2014 Behind the idyllic veneer of being one of the safest cities in the U.S, Salt Lake City is suffering from a massive drug epidemic. National Geographic pulls back the curtain and reveals the secret world of drug addiction in the Mormon community, the arrival of the cartels, and the dangers to the officers trying to control it.

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Cokeland Jul 17, 2014 After being rocked by a corruption scandal and a budget deficit in the range of 58 million dollars, the city's police department's staffing and morale are in bad shape. National Geographic follows an elite team of detectives who are trying to establish some control over the free for all drug market. Using their access to the dealers, users, and gang members at the heart of the problem NGC gives us a inside look at the drug infested city.

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PCP in D.C. Jul 24, 2014 Washington, D.C., was once “Crack City” and the murder capital of the U.S. But an increased police presence following Sept. 11 made drugs scarce. In the neighborhoods of southeast D.C., one drug remained — PCP. And it's causing havoc. NGC goes inside the chaotic world of PCP where users think they're invincible and can be driven to insane acts of depravity. Visit the emergency room unit where doctors treat up to 80 psychotic patients high on PCP each month.

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Dope-landia Jul 31, 2014 Portland's progressive attitudes have made it a mecca for America's homeless and they're helping fund the deadliest drug market in the Pacific Northwest. Here, pushers prey on the young, handing them free sample bags of narcotics to turn them into new customers. With thousands of Portland's youths succumbing to heroin's powerful allure, local police have made it their No. 1 priority to disrupt the flow into the city by smashing the local distribution networks.

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Memphis Mayhem Aug 7, 2014 Minneapolis and St. Paul — the Twin Cities of Minnesota — are home to some of the purest heroin anywhere in the United States. Here, mobile drug dealers have taken to their cars and check in and out of cheap hotels every few days to make themselves harder to track down. The police are now turning to confidential informants to hunt down the dealers and then need to flip the dealers on their suppliers to get closer to the cartels.

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Snitch Cities Aug 14, 2014 Molly, a powdered form of the drug MDMA, is exploding in popularity across the United States. Formerly marketed in pill form as Ecstasy, Molly is a total rebrand. Marketed as purer, cleaner and “without the additives,” this powder has become the most fashionable new drug for young people. But as the consumer demand for Molly has exploded, the production of pure MDMA has struggled to keep up with supply. As a result new, dangerous chemicals are finding their way into the market.

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Flesh-Eating Krokodil Nov 13, 2014 Heroin users in America began showing symptoms associated with Krokodil, a home-cooked opiate, including raw lesions, decaying skin and grotesque sores.

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Cocaine White Gold Nov 13, 2014 With more than 4 million regular users in the United States alone, cocaine has become worth more than gold. Join Nat Geo Channel as we go inside one of the largest markets in the country, Los Angeles, Calif.

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Super Meth Nov 20, 2014 The most powerful drug trafficking organization in the world, the Sinaloa Cartel, has found a new way to exploit American drug demand with Mexican super meth, a stronger and more addictive form of crystal meth.

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Marijuana Mayhem Nov 27, 2014 The rapidly growing appetite for California Sour Diesel, a potent strain of marijuana said to induce an instant high, is helping fuel a violent drug underworld that stretches from coast to coast.

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Manic Molly Dec 4, 2014 Ecstasy rebranded as pure MDMA is exploding in popularity while new-wave dealers try to distribute a molly alternative.

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New Year's Eve NYC Dec 11, 2014 A look at the gangs that supply party goers with illegal drugs during New Year's Eve celebrations in New York City.

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Hardcore Heroin Dec 19, 2014 In Columbus, Ohio, the purity of heroin is on the rise. It’s more deadly than ever before and local paramedics are fighting to save the lives of struggling addicts.

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The Real Wolves of Wall Street Sep 17, 2015 The culture of cocaine is deeply entrenched on Wall Street and some will pay more than its worth for the purest quality available. It’s a buyer’s market and dealers must compete to deliver first and close the sale, while keeping up with the changing Wall Street appetite. A new generation of brokers and traders are turning to a drug that keeps them performing at work. And police are coming down on a drug that they regard as Wall Street’s dirty little secret — which is quickly turning into an epidemic.

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Hip Hop High Sep 24, 2015 The relationship between the million-dollar hip-hop industry and the billion-dollar drug industry; rappers in Calif. use drug money to pay for their studio time.

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X-Rated High Oct 1, 2015 Delving into the Los Angeles porn industry, where a reputation for illegal drugs is under more scrutiny than ever after a number of HIV scares are changing the toleration of narcotics on set.

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Cancun Spring Break Oct 8, 2015 Thousands of students head to Cancun, Mexico for Spring Break and some have only one thing on there mind: to get wasted.

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Jailhouse Junkies Oct 15, 2015 Enterprising inmates in two jails with tough drug policies, one in Calif. and the other in N.J., still find ways to get drugs inside.

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Big Apple Coke Oct 22, 2015 As trafficking drugs through the Caribbean increases in preference to the land route across the Mexican border, gangs in the Dominican Republic have become a key players in the transhipment of cocaine.

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Detroit Halloween Oct 29, 2015 Follow Detroit’s dealers, cops and feds as they take on the city’s wild rave scene in the frantic 48 hours leading up to Halloween. Anarchy rules the Motor City: Around the notorious 8 Mile Road, street slingers stock up and look for new opportunities downtown. In the suburbs, middle-class dealers bring party drugs to raves.

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Chasing The High Jun 16, 2016 From the Silicon Valley to international cities across the globe, dealers balance the need to hold enough merchandise to make a profit with keeping the law at bay. But with the overwhelming demand for drugs, it’s not just the cops chasing down dealers - it’s the users too. Chasing the High sheds light on this perfect storm of supply and demand at the heart of a business we call Drugs, Inc.

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Cartel Games Jun 23, 2016 The drugs that make it from international and rural areas to the hardened city streets have to pass through a plethora of gambits and decoys to be profitable. Cartel Games gives first hand accounts of the strategy behind the moves made, from pawns to kingpins, in the drug battle we call Drugs, Inc.

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Working Girls Jul 18, 2016 Exploring the connection between drugs and the oldest profession in the world.

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Boston Weed Party Jul 3, 2016 Marijuana is widespread amongst the student population in Boston and, with National Weed day on the horizon, dealers and students are gearing up.

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The Fix: Sin City Mar 8, 2018 This enhanced episode unwraps the facts behind the illegal drug trade, Mexican cartel trafficking and tourist industry in Las Vegas.

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The Fix: L.a. Confidential Mar 15, 2018 This enhanced episode breaks down the truth behind the players, dealers, and doctors behind the drug trade in “the City of Angels”, Los Angeles.

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The Fix Golden Gate High Mar 22, 2018 This episode breaks down the clear and present danger of meth, crack and heroin on the colorful streets of a San Francisco.

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The Fix Oregon High Mar 29, 2018 The facts behind how Portland, Oregon became the heroin capital of America.

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The Fix Hard Hit Houston Apr 14, 2018 Houston’s drug hub is the ‘Bloody Nickel’ – the Fifth Ward north-east of Downtown. This enhanced episode shows in Houston, Mexican Cartels co-opt street gangs and white supremacists to handle retail – crack, meth and weed. Cops in turn bust dealers and flip them to work undercover. The dealers take to the freeways, heading out to the suburbs and taking their product with them. Cops try to choke the supply heading up I-59 from the Border. Those who are sick of the stress turn to ‘Lean’: a prescription cough remedy. It doesn’t make you thin. But you will fall over.

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The Fix Jamaica Buzz Apr 21, 2018 In this enhanced episode, highly organized and warring drug gangs manage drug trafficking and distribution at all levels, while politicians and law officials fight hard to protect in a city where poverty and guns drive the drug trade.

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The Fix Big Sky Meth Apr 28, 2018 This enhanced episode digs into the facts behind Montana becoming a hot spot for drugs coming in from Mexico and Canada.