Drugs, Inc.

2013 • National Geographic Channel
4.6
502 reviews
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Season 7 episodes (16)

1 The Real Wolves of Wall Street
9/16/15
The culture of cocaine is deeply entrenched on Wall Street, and some will pay more than it's worth for the purest quality available. Dealers must compete to deliver first and close the sale while keeping up with changing Wall Street appetites. 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.
2 Hip Hop High
9/23/15
Hip-hop, a billion-dollar industry, plays up to its links with another billion-dollar industry: drugs. In Oakland CA, wannabe rappers use money from dealing cocaine to pay for studio time. Hip-hop duo, the Hoodstarz, try to avoid the cops after narrowly avoiding a drug bust. In Vegas, a hip-hop promoter uses drug money to pay rappers. And prisoners sell drugs inside to pay producers to mix their songs on the outside, in the hope of making it big.
3 X-Rated High
9/30/15
Drugs, Inc. delves inside the Los Angeles porn industry. The porn industry and drugs have a reputation for going hand in hand. But after HIV scares, porn sets are under more scrutiny than ever, and it’s changing the way drugs on set are tolerated. This show features Ron Jeremy, Kacey Jordan (who survived Charlie Sheen’s meltdown), meth addict Amanda Blow, and the former "world’s hottest porn star" Brittni Ruiz.
4 Cancun Spring Break
10/7/15
Among the thousands of U.S. students who head to Cancun, Mexico, for spring break, some have one thing on their minds: to get wasted. Two cartels control the tourist drug trade, but independent dealers are trying to poach their turf at enormous risk. Cartel hit men prowl the fringes of the party scene. Police, meanwhile, struggle to hold the line, trying to head off the brewing violence and save tourists from the consequences of their own folly.
5 Jailhouse Junkies
10/14/15
Two jails: one in California, the other in New Jersey. Both states have among the toughest drug policies in the United States. But still drugs find their way in. In Cali, crystal meth is the jail drug du jour, while in Jersey a deadlier drug rules: heroin. Two different drugs, two different kingpins, two different jails. It's officers versus inmates in a battle for ultimate control.
6 Big Apple Coke
10/21/15
Gangs in the Dominican Republic have become key players in the transhipment of cocaine. With unprecedented access to a cartel boss’ network of traffickers, mules, and dealers, and the customs officers dedicated to stopping them, an entity known as New York’s 'Dominican cocaine connection’ exposes every level of the DR supply chain to America, giving us rare access to the ruthless, secretive, and highly organized Dominican drug underworld.
7 Detroit Halloween
10/28/15
Halloween in Detroit. Two tales of one city. Around the notorious 8 Mile Road, the street slingers are stocking up and looking for new opportunities downtown. In the suburbs, middle class dealers take party drugs into raves. Both groups have to dodge the Border Patrol and the suburban cops. For a frantic forty-eight hours over 'devil’s night,' drugs, guns, money, busts, and bodies flood Detroit.
8 Pittsburgh Smack
11/4/15
‘Ghost’ is a kingpin who moves huge amounts of heroin into Pittsburgh, PA. But the police are making it harder and now Ghost has competition from wannabe hustlers ready to muscle in on the market. There is a big market of pill heads out of town and Ghost thinks they are ripe for exploitation. But he hasn’t figured in the most aggressive narcotics cops in PA: The Attorney General’s Drug Task Force. And they are waiting for him.
9 Silicon Valley High
11/11/15
J-Stax deals Mexican cocaine to the programmers of Silicon Valley. A cop crackdown is making life difficult and driving his clients to a locally-produced alternative: meth. But a meth habit is hard to hide. Get caught and you may end up like Michael: jobless, homeless and living in a shanty called the Jungle.
10 Heroin Island, NYC
11/18/15
Cut off from the Big Apple, Staten Island is a slice of suburbia – three times the size of Manhattan and home to just half a million people. But the Island’s idyllic way of life is under attack: every five days, one person overdoses from drugs, fueled by an opiate storm blowing in from both sides of the island.
11 Euro Coke
11/25/15
For the first time ever, ‘Drugs, Inc’ heads to Ghana and Nigeria to follow the supply of cocaine from Peru on a new trafficking route to Europe. West Africa is one of the world’s most unstable regions. Its porous borders allow free movement of goods and people – making the region a drug trafficker’s dream. South American suppliers send over 50 tons of cocaine to West Africa every year. But the law busts less than 1%.
12 Aussie Ice Wars
12/2/15
For the first time ever, Drugs Inc. heads to Australia. With the price of drugs so high, Australians have turned to a cheap and dangerous stimulant, crystal meth – known locally as ice. Use of the drug has reached epidemic proportions, feeding the power of the biker gangs that control the trade. Public outcry is forcing the authorities to act, but as the 'bikies' fall some Triads are stepping in to fill the vacuum.
13 Tex Meth
12/9/15
In Austin, Texas, thousands of artists and over a million fans flock to the “live music capital of the world” every year, and where there’s live music and festivals, drugs are never far away. With so many potential customers, competition among sellers is fierce. The Sinaloa cartel uses a network of traffickers and runners to smuggle huge shipments of ice into Texas from Mexico, but the A.T.F. and Border Patrol are trying to cut it off.
14 Boston Weed Party
12/16/15
Thanks to recently relaxed possession laws in Massachusetts, student dealers like Anubis, Kane, and Stiffler are ramping up their supplies. To fund their own studies, they are selling an array of narcotics to the booming student population in Boston. But with 'national weed day' around the corner, the police are also on the look-out.
15 Bangkok Ice
12/23/15
Thailand is in the grip of an addiction epidemic that is spinning out of control, as a candy-colored meth pill called yaba overtakes every other drug used in the country. Yaba in Thai means ‘crazy medicine,’ and heavy use of the pill can trigger psychosis. The death penalty hangs over every dealer, but that does not seem to deter them. Dealers find many ways to dodge the cops and customs authorities to keep the profits rolling in.
16 Shooting Up Suburbia
12/30/15
Vancouver has been voted one of the best places to live in North America, but it has a darker side. In a wealthy suburb, two gangs are fighting each other for control of the local cocaine trade. Gang enforcement cops swarm the streets nightly to hunt down shooting suspects and stem the escalating tide of violence. But heavy police presence is pushing dealers to relocate downtown, and customers are gravitating towards them.

About this show

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 also provides vital income to thousands of poor workers across the globe. While some users sacrifice their lives to addiction, others find drugs to be their only relief from physical or emotional pain. Where should the lines be drawn in this lucrative industry?

Ratings and reviews

4.6
502 reviews
Lindsey Prawat
September 21, 2015
I thought I knew a lot about drugs until I watched this. There's so much more out there than there was back when I was a teen in the late 90s. Now that I have a kid that's entering high school, its scary to hear about the new synthetic drugs because we don't know the long term effects that they can cause. I can only imagine what it will be like another twenty years from now. Parents need to stay educated and talk with your kids about it. Be honest with them cause if they think your lying, they won't open up. Be honest if you experimented with drugs as a teen, you'll be surprised at how much your kids will open up and talk to you.
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Dennis Kennedy
January 29, 2015
Scary as it seems, but each illegal drug, the effects are different.Especially, if the drugs are combined into something, like a "screwball"effect. From all around the world, funneling into the USA.From liquid dipped pot cigarettes,all variants and all types of drugs. Maybe, an lsd, heroin, crack and Molly.(one high lifting, downer, brain cell blown trip.) Possibly, a "one way joy ride" From "party drugs" to dangerous loccidil, has the potency as flesh eating venom. Loccidil puts holes in your flesh
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JoAnne Lizbet
September 18, 2015
Brings much needed attention to the rapidly spreading drug epidemic sweeping the nation and tries to break thw negative stigma of addiction in doing so! Job well done keep up the great work
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