Holidaze bears witness to the rise in demand for drugs during Mardi Gras, Spring Break, Independence Day, and New Years Eve.
Halloween in Detroit - in the suburbs middle class dealers take party drugs into raves. Both groups have to dodge the Border Patrol and the suburban cops
The porn industry and drugs have a reputation for going hand in hand. But after a number of HIV scares, porn sets in LA are under more scrutiny than ever.
Hip-hop, a million dollar industry plays up to its links with another billion-dollar industry: drugs. But the ties between hip-hop and drugs don't end with jail.
With access to a Cartel boss, traffickers, mules, dealers and the customs officers, New York's Dominican Cocaine Connection exposes every level of the cocaine supply chain to America.
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.
In Texas, thousands of artists and over a million fans flock to the live music capital of the world every year and drugs are a part of this - the Sinaloa Cartel smuggles huge shipments of ice from Mexico.
Pittsburgh is flooded with heroin. The Pittsburghs cops are cracking down and the market is in turmoil.
We head to Ghana and Nigeria to follow the supply of cocaine from Peru on a new trafficking route to Europe. But the law busts are less than 1%.
Staten Island's idyllic way of life is under attack: Every five days, one person overdoses from drugs, fuelled by an opiate storm blowing in from both sides of the island.
We head to Australia, where drug prices are so high, locals have turned to the cheap crystal meth. Its high usage feeds the power of the motorcycle clubs that control the trade.
In Surrey, Vancouver, two gangs are fighting each other for control of the local cocaine trade. Heavy police presence is pushing independent dealers to relocate downtown.
A new generation of brokers and traders are turning to cocaine that keeps them performing at work and coming down on a drug which is quickly turning into an epidemic.
In Thailand a drug called Yaba which means 'crazy medicine' in Thai can trigger psychosis. The death penalty hangs over every dealer but that does not seem to deter them.
It's Spring Break and thousands of US students who head to Cancun, Mexico. Two cartels monopolise the tourist drug trade. But independent dealers are trying to poach their turf.
To fund their own studies, student dealers are selling an array of narcotics to the booming student population in Boston. But the police are also on the look-out.
Two jails: one in California, the other in New Jersey. Both have amongst the toughest drug policies in the US but still drugs find their way in. Officers and inmates are in a battle for ultimate control.
The countdown to New Year’s Eve in New York City has begun. With the biggest party of the year rapidly approaching, National Geographic Channel gets an inside view of drug gangs as they go into overdrive to capitalize on the enormous demand.
Mardi Gras means two months of crazy carnivals leading to one of the biggest parties in the nation. But as tourists flood New Orleans, so do drug dealers eager to make a profit.
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, CA.
During March, more than a million students will descend onto Florida beaches for a month of drinking, drugs and 24-hour raving. Traffickers take huge risks to bring in drugs, by both land and sea.
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.
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.
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.
Molly, ecstasy rebranded as ultra-pure MDMA, is exploding as the new hot-selling drug. And with the growing popularity of electronic dance music, molly use has skyrocketed, overwhelming supply and driving prices to astronomical levels. National Geographic Channel brings you new-wave dealers who have found a solution to the exhausted supply in the form of a molly alternative that is yielding much greater profits.
When heroin users in America began turning up with raw lesions, decaying skin and grotesque sores, doctors were worried. The symptoms looked like those associated with Krokodil ' a home-cooked, super-strong opiate that got its start in Siberian Russia. Made from codeine cooked with toxic ingredients, Krokodil can be stronger than heroin, and more addictive.
Chicago, Illinois, is the drug hub of the Midwest and one of the most dangerous large cities in the United States. The Fourth of July is one of the bloodiest nights of the year and a time when the demand for drugs booms.
Oakland is the third most dangerous city in the US. Gangs rule and drug use is out of control. Meet the elite detectives trying to stop the rot.
With 60,000 addicts, the 'Heroin Hustle' is a way of life in downtrodden Baltimore. The booming business is expanding outwards to the suburbs to meet the demand of a growing new drug market.
Once known as Crack City and the murder capital of the USA, Washington DC has a new problem: PCP, a psychotic high that can drive users insane.
Meet 'Molly', the deadly drug that's driving Atlanta's night life. From the hot clubs to AK47 toting dealers, it's a growing threat to the city.
When Portland's the city's locally-made meth industry collapsed in 2005, Mexican suppliers flooded the city with 'Ice', giving them complete monopoly of the market.
Police turn to confidential informants to hunt down the mobile dealers in Minneapolis and Saint Paul who deal some of the purest heroin around.
Buyers are so desperate to get hold of the Cartel's high quality product they travel to Dallas giving local dealers the chance to make big money.
With unprecedented access to dealers, users and law enforcement, discover how Dominican drug organisations are becoming more powerful in Boston.
In Memphis, cops find themselves confronted by paranoid and trigger-happy dealers as they try to stop a heroin epidemic engulfing the city.
Behind its idyllic veneer, Salt Lake City hides a secret world of drug addition, dealing and a struggle by law enforcement to contain it.
Discover how San Francisco is struggling to recover from a meth epidemic as we go inside one of the worst drug ghettos in America.
Nicknamed 'Junkie Town', nothing demonstrates Seattle's tolerant and liberal attitude to drugs more than the recent legalisation of marijuana.
In the Fifth Ward, a drug hub of Houston, Texas, discover first-hand how drugs are dominating the area's economy.
An inside look at Kingston's thriving drug scene, where warring drug gangs fight for the patronage of politicians - and to protect their turf.
Home to one of the biggest open-air cocaine and heroin markets in America, discover the violent world of Chicago's drug industry.
The legalisation of marijuana in Colorado is taking a toll on the illegal drug market, and gang wars are starting to heat up.
Modern Miami is a city that was largely built on the cocaine industry. Over four decades, the city has played an integral role in trafficking drugs from Latin America into the United States.
In Kensington, Philadelphia, heroin, crack cocaine and PCP are dealt from a hundred different corners, turning neighbourhoods into deadly traps.
With exclusive access to Tennessee's drug network, discover how policing the war on drugs has led to an opiate addiction of epidemic proportions.
180 miles from the Mexican border, Phoenix, Arizona, has become the country's major distribution point for marijuana, heroin and methamphetamine.
Despite its island paradise reputation, Hawaii has the worst rate of crystal-meth abuse in the US. Find out how law enforcers fight the problem.
With its remote location offering huge profits for dealers, Alaska has a big problem with drugs but illicit alcohol is an even bigger killer.
Explore Las Vegas, America's Sin City, where each year 40 million tourists come to gamble and party, creating a massive demand for drugs.
From Wall Street traders to Brooklyn dealers, New Yorkers have big links to the drug trade. How do customs agents battle the Big Apple addicts?
Meet the dealers, starlets and down-and-outs swallowed up by the Tinseltown drug trade, where life in the fast lane can come at a terrible cost.
With the established drug hierarchy washed away by Hurricane Katrina, dealers come in from other cities with new connections and better dope.
On the streets of London, British drug kingpins compete with Eastern European crime gangs trying to muscle in on the cocaine trade.
From methamphetamines and marijuana smuggled across the US borders to prescription pill abuse, take a look at Montana's illegal narcotics trade.
Head to the notorious dealing hot spots of Puerto Rico and discover a new drug, Anestesia, that is turning addicts into sleepwalking zombies.
The rich suburbs of Detroit face a drug explosion, with a new wave of hipsters experimenting with everything from heroin to prescription pills.
Crack Cocaine is a drug dealers dream: a cheap, short, intense high that leaves users desperate for more and fuels crime and violence like no other drug on the planet. With unprecedented access to cocaine producers in the jungles of Peru, street kids in the slums of Lima, a crack dealer and addicts in Chicago, and a multi agency drug task force in South Florida, this film takes viewers inside a day in the life of the crack business.
Every 26 seconds, thieves break into a car somewhere in America. Joyriders steal for cheap rides. Professionals steal for organized crime groups to smuggle overseas. Now, thieves take trucks and SUVs for Mexican Drug Cartels to convert into heavily armed 'narco tanks'. But the cops are using new tactics to fight back. This film exposes the world of Grand Theft Auto - the thieves, the chop-shops; smugglers and cops - all part of the global 1.3 trillion dollar industry that is: Underworld, Inc.
Ketamine is the drug of a choice for a new generation. It's cheap, easy to get hold of and incredibly powerful. The versatile nature of this 21st century narcotic means it's popular both out on the party scene and as an intense hallucinogenic trip at home. This film tells the story of Ketamine's rise to prominence in the last 5 years through the experiences of smugglers in India, dealers in the USA, cops in Canada and one addict in England who's paid a terrible price for his addiction.
Hash is one of the most commonly used drugs on the planet. This film visits the producers in the lawless Moroccan Riff mountains, where 800,000 people live on the profits from hash production; the Smugglers and Customs officers playing cat and mouse games across the Strait of Gibraltar; the dealers and importers in Britain who risk prison to smoke the best hash in Europe; the Americans who visit Amsterdam to smoke Hash in licensed coffee shops; and the soldier, shot in the head who uses Hash for pain relief and post traumatic stress disorder.
Ecstasy is the most controversial drug on the planet: For millions of clubbers it's the ultimate love drug - yet organized crime gangs will kill for it; thousands of ravers have died from taking it, but for underground therapists it's a life-saving medicine. With unprecedented access to the Ecstasy underworld - from traffickers and dealers to producers and users - as well as the life-saving and law enforcing agencies - from the Canadian customs to US Paramedics - this film provides a snapshot of the impact of Ecstasy around the globe.
Hallucinogens - the most potent drugs known to man. For forty years drugs like LSD and magic mushrooms attracted Americans looking to tune in, turn on and drop out. Now, from the Amazon jungle to the streets of the United States and Europe, a new generation of users are turning to powerful mind-altering substances, not for fun, but to treat addiction and disease. Desperately seeking relief from their ailments, these users risk jail or serious health problems for a shot at living a normal life.
Designer Drugs are the new battleground in the global war on narcotics. 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. But legal doesn't make them safe. Producers avoid Federal regulations by labeling them 'not fit for human consumption'. When the Law does ban a drug, underground chemists simply change the formula. And, while the law plays catch-up, gangsters grow rich.
It is known as Hillbilly Heroin, but prescription opiate pain pills are now in every town and city across the United States. From the poorest trailer home to the most expensive mansion, pain killers are tearing apart the very fabric of American society. More people are addicted to these pills than cocaine, heroin and crystal meth combined and they're second only to road traffic accidents as the leading cause of accidental death. From the rolling hills of Ohio to the mean streets of Tijuana, opiate pain pills are now the drug of choice for the 21st century.
Around the world cocaine is making a comeback, claiming thousands of lives each year in the U.S. How does cocaine do it?
The oldest profession in the world matches up with one of the most lucrative. Prostitutes are given access to high-end parties and put in the most dangerous situations. Working Girls opens our eyes to the world of sex, drugs, and destruction in a business we call Drugs, Inc.
The oldest profession in the world matches up with one of the most lucrative. Prostitutes are given access to high-end parties and put in the most dangerous situations. Working Girls opens our eyes to the world of sex, drugs, and destruction in a business we call Drugs, Inc.
The oldest profession in the world matches up with one of the most lucrative. Prostitutes are given access to high-end parties and put in the most dangerous situations. Working Girls opens our eyes to the world of sex, drugs, and destruction in a business we call Drugs, Inc.
The oldest profession in the world matches up with one of the most lucrative. Prostitutes are given access to high-end parties and put in the most dangerous situations. Working Girls opens our eyes to the world of sex, drugs, and destruction in a business we call Drugs, Inc.
The drug cartels reach stretches from city streets to rural towns. Over the years, international law enforcement and organized gangs have been playing an endless game of chess. Both sides making calculated moves to avoid and deter each other. 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.
The oldest profession in the world matches up with one of the most lucrative. Prostitutes are given access to high-end parties and put in the most dangerous situations. Working Girls opens our eyes to the world of sex, drugs, and destruction in a business we call Drugs, Inc.
Around the world, one drug can be made anywhere, by anyone. With meth claiming thousands of lives each year we ask: Why is meth so deadly?
Heroin is deadly addictive and new drugs like krokodil and fentanyl are replacing it, and wreaking havoc.
The drug cartels reach stretches from city streets to rural towns. Over the years, international law enforcement and organized gangs have been playing an endless game of chess. Both sides making calculated moves to avoid and deter each other. 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.
The oldest profession in the world matches up with one of the most lucrative. Prostitutes are given access to high-end parties and put in the most dangerous situations. Working Girls opens our eyes to the world of sex, drugs, and destruction in a business we call Drugs, Inc.
In the ugly business of drug dealing, some dealers focus their efforts on high society users paying top dollar for quality stuff, while others focus on quantity, selling users just enough to scratch the itch and come back for more.
See the underground world of drugs through the eyes of its makers. A former British gangster serves as guide into this illicit underworld, visiting a secret hash-making location nestled in the mountains. Check out growers in Holland who are leading a horticultural revolution in high-grade cannabis. Follow a batch of raw opium from an Afghan poppy field to an Iranian heroin lab. Follow the supply chain of cocaine through the eyes of Colombian peasant farmers producing the drug in a paste. For Las Vegas tourists wanting a good time with a "high," our cameras reveal a group of discreet crack makers. And deep in the Amazon jungle, locals feed their...
The sale of drugs accounts for billions of dollars in illegal commerce across the globe, bringing untold wealth to a select few. But these men and women who live the lavish lifestyles off the sale of drugs rarely associate themselves with the ugly underbelly where their products hit the streets with users. These stories show that wherever people use be it an island paradise or a cold city street they can get lost in the shuffle. This episode will go deep into the stories of the users. Well meet a teenager whose crystal meth addiction caused him to steal his mothers car and money and even attempt suicide, and a "poly-drug" cocaine and heroin addict...
This episode takes a look at law enforcement's fight against the country's most dangerous dealers and biggest producers and their attempts to break down notorious drug trafficking organizations. From drug smuggling at New York's JFK International Airport to the dangerous cartel traffickers of Arizona, law enforcement goes on the offensive to thwart the global economic drug trade.
Confidential Informants and Undercover Cops are one of the biggest threats to the Mexican Cartels and other drug distribution networks across the globe. They put their lives on the line and work their way into dangerous situations in order to break down the infrastructure of the 350 billion dollar business of drugs.
The drug game is filled with those fighting for good and bad. Each side needs weapons to fight for their cause. These are the men and women who profit from the sale and use of the arms sold under the table.
From big time distributors to small time dealers, Cartels play a significant role in the drug game. Some reap the financial rewards within Cartel rules, while others work hard for scraps. Either way, life under the thumb of the Cartels is dangerous.
Grim Reaper sheds light on the dark side of the drug trade. Users fall into the habit of using drugs to fill a void. The business of drugs wreaks havoc and lives are lost.
Welcome to the 300-billion-dollar industry of Drugs, where traffickers pocket huge profits, addicts become chained in a vicious cycle and law enforces wage war across diverse battlefields.
