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.
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