The WORST episodes of Drugs, Inc.
Every episode of Drugs, Inc. ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst 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 - Cokeland
Season 5 - Episode 2 - Aired 7/9/2014
After being rocked by a corruption scandal and a budget deficit in the range of 58 million dollars, the city's police department's staffing and morale are in bad shape. National Geographic follows an elite team of detectives who are trying to establish some control over the free for all drug market. Using their access to the dealers, users, and gang members at the heart of the problem NGC gives us a inside look at the drug infested city.
#2 - Cocaine White Gold
Season 6 - Episode 3 - Aired 11/19/2014
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, Calif.
#3 - Flesh-Eating Krokodil
Season 6 - Episode 1 - Aired 11/12/2014
Heroin users in America began showing symptoms associated with Krokodil, a home-cooked opiate, including raw lesions, decaying skin and grotesque sores.
#4 - Boston Benzo Buzz
Season 5 - Episode 10 - Aired 9/3/2014
Dominican drug networks tied directly to the Mexican cartel are distributing countless amounts of narcotics in the historic city of Boston, fueling a widespread epidemic that law enforcement and emergency services can hardly contain. The Dominican drug organizations are increasingly using Puerto Rican dealers as their middlemen to flood the city with heroin. The epidemic touches all communities, making Boston one of the leading cities for heroin distribution.
#5 - The High Wire
Season 5 - Episode 9 - Aired 8/27/2014
Baltimore, a once prosperous city, lost many of its jobs along with its steel mills. In return, the city developed one of the biggest heroin problems in the country. For many of those that remain amid the poverty and abandoned homes, the Heroin Hustle is the way of life. One strip of Pennsylvania Avenue alone is estimated to take in $10 million a year from heroin sales. With the business booming, the heroin market is expanding outward to the suburbs, and the authorities are struggling to cope.
#6 - Molly Madness
Season 5 - Episode 7 - Aired 8/13/2014
Molly, a powdered form of the drug MDMA, is exploding in popularity across the United States. Formerly marketed in pill form as Ecstasy, Molly is a total rebrand. Marketed as purer, cleaner and without the additives, this powder has become the most fashionable new drug for young people. But as the consumer demand for Molly has exploded, the production of pure MDMA has struggled to keep up with supply. As a result new, dangerous chemicals are finding their way into the market.
#7 - Snitch Cities
Season 5 - Episode 6 - Aired 8/6/2014
Minneapolis and St. Paul the Twin Cities of Minnesota are home to some of the purest heroin anywhere in the United States. Here, mobile drug dealers have taken to their cars and check in and out of cheap hotels every few days to make themselves harder to track down. The police are now turning to confidential informants to hunt down the dealers and then need to flip the dealers on their suppliers to get closer to the cartels.
#8 - Memphis Mayhem
Season 5 - Episode 5 - Aired 7/30/2014
In Memphis, Tenn., drug habits are changing. Along Elvis Presley Blvd., addicts are switching to heroin as supplies of cocaine dry up following a successful kingpin takedown. Now, dealers with pockets stuffed full of cash are attracting deadly stick-up crews who roam the streets looking for easy targets. Ride alongside Memphis cops as they find themselves confronted by paranoid and trigger-happy dealers as they try to stop a heroin epidemic from engulfing the city.
#9 - Dope-landia
Season 5 - Episode 4 - Aired 7/23/2014
Portland's progressive attitudes have made it a mecca for America's homeless and they're helping fund the deadliest drug market in the Pacific Northwest. Here, pushers prey on the young, handing them free sample bags of narcotics to turn them into new customers. With thousands of Portland's youths succumbing to heroin's powerful allure, local police have made it their No. 1 priority to disrupt the flow into the city by smashing the local distribution networks.
#10 - PCP in D.C.
Season 5 - Episode 3 - Aired 7/16/2014
Washington, D.C., was once Crack City and the murder capital of the U.S. But an increased police presence following Sept. 11 made drugs scarce. In the neighborhoods of southeast D.C., one drug remained PCP. And it's causing havoc. NGC goes inside the chaotic world of PCP where users think they're invincible and can be driven to insane acts of depravity. Visit the emergency room unit where doctors treat up to 80 psychotic patients high on PCP each month.
#11 - Marijuana Mayhem
Season 6 - Episode 5 - Aired 12/3/2014
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.
#12 - Going to Extremes
Season 4 - Episode 12 - Aired 11/24/2013
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 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.
#13 - The Drug Makers
Season 4 - Episode 11 - Aired 11/17/2013
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.
#14 - Stashville: Tennessee
Season 4 - Episode 10 - Aired 10/20/2013
Music and drugs go hand in hand in Nashville.
#15 - Cartel City: Arizona
Season 4 - Episode 9 - Aired 10/13/2013
Phoenix, Arizona is the de facto wholesale drug capital of America.
#16 - Philly Dope
Season 4 - Episode 7 - Aired 9/29/2013
A northern Philadelphia community is rampant with heroin, crack cocaine and PCP.
#17 - Miami Vices
Season 4 - Episode 6 - Aired 9/22/2013
Miami has been used to traffic drugs into the United States from Latin America.
#18 - Rocky Mountain High
Season 4 - Episode 5 - Aired 9/15/2013
Denver's legalization of recreational use of marijuana in January 2014,could be the downfall of the city's gang-banger dealers who have seen falling profits since medical marijuana became legal in 2001.
#19 - High in Houston
Season 4 - Episode 4 - Aired 9/1/2013
In the Fifth Ward, a drug hub of Huston, Tex., see firsthand how drugs are dominating the area's economy and populous. We'll talk to a major crack cocaine dealer, a Hispanic street gang member, addicts, a pimp who claims to rule the streets and a full-patch member of the Aryan Brotherhood of Texas white supremacist prison gang. Learn about a prescription cough remedy that abusers call lean named because if you take enough of it, you lean or fall over.
#20 - Motor City Rush
Season 3 - Episode 9 - Aired 12/30/2012
The most dangerous city in the USA, Detroit, is a perfect mark for today's growing drug industry. Dealers are learning cater to inner city clientele by selling smaller amounts of hard drugs like heroin and cocaine for single-digit prices.
#21 - Jailhouse Junkies
Season 7 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/14/2015
Enterprising inmates in two jails with tough drug policies, one in Calif. and the other in N.J., still find ways to get drugs inside.
#22 - Cartel Chaos
Season 6 - Episode 8 - Aired 1/3/2015
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.
#23 - Bangkok Ice
Season 7 - Episode 19 - Aired 12/23/2015
Thai police battle an addiction epidemic as popularity of meth pill Yaba spins out of control. Dealers continue to find ways to dodge the authorities and keep profits rolling in.
#24 - Business Behind Bars
Season 7 - Episode 15 - Aired 11/25/2015
Arresting drug dealers is just the beginning for some in the drug game, as some inmates continue to do business behind bars.
#25 - Heroin Island, NYC
Season 7 - Episode 13 - Aired 11/18/2015
Heroin on Staten Island is reaching epidemic proportions as dealers from New Jersey take advantage of a crackdown on prescription pills that's leaving teenagers desperate for a soporific high.