The BEST episodes of Drugs, Inc.
Every episode of Drugs, Inc. ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Drugs, Inc.!
How does the drug trade work? Can it be stopped or should it be regulated? And what are the personal costs? Those are just some of the questions answered in this miniseries, a comprehensive look at society's most abused drugs: cocaine, methamphetamine, heroin and marijuana. First-person perspectives from traffickers, dealers, users, law enforcement and medical professionals detail how the drugs are processed and moved onto the streets, and the effects they have on the human body.
#1 - Holidaze
Season 7 - Episode 12 - Aired 11/18/2015
Follow the rise in demand for narcotics during Mardi Gras, Spring Break, Independence Day, and New Years Eve, through the eyes of dealers, law enforcement and users
#2 - Designer Drugs
Season 2 - Episode 7 - Aired 2/12/2012
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.
#3 - Hawaiian Ice
Season 3 - Episode 3 - Aired 11/11/2012
Hawaii has one of the highest rates of crystal meth users in the nation.
#4 - Meth Boom Montana
Season 3 - Episode 6 - Aired 12/9/2012
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.
#5 - Hallucinogens
Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 1/15/2012
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.
#6 - Ketamine
Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 1/22/2012
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.
#7 - Coke Kings and Queens
Season 3 - Episode 10 - Aired 1/6/2013
Cocaine and marijuana drug fueled 24-hour lifestyle for Londoners.
#8 - Spring Break
Season 6 - Episode 11 - Aired 1/21/2015
Its spring break in Florida and the wave of students means the demand for drugs is flooding the streets. In a month-long party, springbreakers’ drug of choice is “molly.” For local dealers, spring break is the busiest time of year.
#9 - Ecstasy
Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 1/8/2012
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.
#10 - Euro Coke
Season 7 - Episode 14 - Aired 11/25/2015
Cocaine is Europe-bound and which means a white-knuckle ride along the Amazon, to the docks of Ghana and Nigeria and all the way to Amsterdam.
#11 - Shooting Up Suburbia
Season 7 - Episode 20 - Aired 12/30/2015
In Vancouver, a suburban gang war and heavy police presence drives some dealers and their customers to move downtown. But the cops are in hot pursuit.
#12 - Boston Weed Party
Season 7 - Episode 18 - Aired 12/16/2015
Marijuana is widespread amongst the student population in Boston and, with National Weed day on the horizon, dealers and students are gearing up.
#13 - Tex Meth
Season 7 - Episode 17 - Aired 12/9/2015
Meet the network of traffickers, runners and smugglers delivering meth to the masses in Austin. At the Tex-Mex border, officials do everything they can to cut off supply.
#14 - Pittsburgh Smack
Season 7 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/4/2015
When Pittsburgh police crack down on heroin, they inadvertently open the door for wannabe dealers that see a chance to muscle their way into the market with a killer brand.
#15 - Dallas Dope Cowboys
Season 5 - Episode 8 - Aired 8/20/2014
The southwest border of the U.S. is the main gateway for illegal drugs, and Dallas, Texas, is often the first port of call for the Mexican cartel drug trade. In this episode, witness how the Mexican cartels have tainted Dallas by turning it into their command and control center for the trade of their narcotics. Buyers desperate to get a hold of the cartel's high-quality product flock to Dallas from all over the country, giving local dealers the chance to make big money
#16 - Salt Lake Sinners
Season 5 - Episode 1 - Aired 7/2/2014
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.
#17 - Best in the Business
Season 4 - Episode 13 - Aired 11/24/2013
Every pill popped, pipe smoked and shot injected comes with a price tag. Some dealers focus their efforts on high society users paying top dollar for the best quality stuff, while others focus on quantity selling users just enough to scratch the itch and come back for more. Either way, the smuggling and selling of drugs brings in big money. And some of the people handling it are the best in the business.
#18 - Drug Kings of New York
Season 3 - Episode 4 - Aired 11/18/2012
As America's largest city, New York is a distribution hub for narcotics.
#19 - Grand Theft Auto
Season 2 - Episode 8 - Aired 2/19/2012
Auto crime is the tip of a sinister global iceberg where a car stolen in LA could end up on the Russian black market or a truck taken in Laredo, Texas could become a heavily armored 'narco tank' used in Mexican Cartel gun battles.
#20 - Cocaine
Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 7/11/2010
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.
#21 - Marijuana
Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 7/12/2010
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.
#22 - Hash
Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 1/1/2012
A former British gangster serves as guide into this illicit underworld, visiting a secret hash-making location nestled in the mountains.
#23 - Crack
Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/1/2012
Inside the world of producers, traffickers, dealers, users, doctors, and cops who make up the multi-billion-dollar industry.
#24 - Alaska Heroin Rush
Season 3 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/28/2012
Alaskan dealers make vast profits from crack, heroin and illicit alcohol; street gangs battle for control of the Anchorage drug market.
#25 - Heroin
Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 7/12/2010
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.