Drugs, Inc.

2013 • National Geographic Channel

4.6

503 reviews

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Season 4 episodes (10)

1 San Francisco Meth Zombies

8/11/13

San Francisco, the epicenter of The 60s 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, who 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.

2 Jamaican Gangs, Guns and Ganja

8/18/13

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

3 Windy City High

8/25/13

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.

4 High in Houston

9/1/13

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.

5 Rocky Mountain High

9/18/13

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.

6 Miami Vices

9/22/13

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.

7 Philly Dope

9/29/13

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.

8 Wasted in Seattle

10/6/13

Since the days of Kurt Cobain and grunge music, Seattle has been nicknamed Junkietown. The city's liberal laws and high demand for drugs is attracting gangsters and dealers looking to get rich. From the competitive crack business in Belltown to fashionable Molly users on the electronic dance music scene, National Geographic explores the highs and lows of Seattle's drug business.

9 Cartel City, Arizona

10/13/13

Phoenix, Arizona is the wholesale drug capital of America, under the control of one of Mexico's most powerful and ruthless drug organizations — the Sinaloa Cartel. Almost 200 miles north of the Mexican border, the city has become the major stopping off point for the large-scale distribution and transshipment of marijuana, heroin and methamphetamine up from Mexico and out to the rest of the country.

10 Stashville, Tennessee

10/20/13

Season-only

Music and drugs go hand in hand in Nashville. For musicians who don't make it, drugs are the easiest way to make a living. We talk to a user and freelance cook who makes methamphetamine at home to cover his costs and get high. Then, we'll learn how the 19th Judicial District Drug Task Force is faced with cleaning up after meth cooks— operations that are both extremely dangerous and prohibitively expensive.

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

503 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.

42 people found this review helpful

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

16 people found this review helpful

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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