Drugs, Inc.

- Season 7

(2015)

The culture of cocaine is deeply entrenched on Wall Street, and some will pay more than it's worth for the purest quality available. Dealers must compete to deliver first and close the sale while keeping up with changing Wall Street appetites. A new generation of brokers and traders are turning to a drug that keeps them performing at work. And police are coming down on a drug that they regard as Wall Street's dirty little secret.

Hip-hop, a billion-dollar industry, plays up to its links with another billion-dollar industry: drugs. In Oakland CA, wannabe rappers use money from dealing cocaine to pay for studio time. Hip-hop duo, the Hoodstarz, try to avoid the cops after narrowly avoiding a drug bust. In Vegas, a hip-hop promoter uses drug money to pay rappers. And prisoners sell drugs inside to pay producers to mix their songs on the outside, in the hope of making it big.

Drugs, Inc. delves inside the Los Angeles porn industry. The porn industry and drugs have a reputation for going hand in hand. But after HIV scares, porn sets are under more scrutiny than ever, and it's changing the way drugs on set are tolerated. This show features Ron Jeremy, Kacey Jordan (who survived Charlie Sheen's meltdown), meth addict Amanda Blow, and the former "world's hottest porn star" Brittni Ruiz.

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Two jails: one in California, the other in New Jersey. Both states have among the toughest drug policies in the United States. But still drugs find their way in. In Cali, crystal meth is the jail drug du jour, while in Jersey a deadlier drug rules: heroin. Two different drugs, two different kingpins, two different jails. It's officers versus inmates in a battle for ultimate control.

Gangs in the Dominican Republic have become key players in the transhipment of cocaine. With unprecedented access to a cartel boss' network of traffickers, mules, and dealers, and the customs officers dedicated to stopping them, an entity known as New York's 'Dominican cocaine connection' exposes every level of the DR supply chain to America, giving us rare access to the ruthless, secretive, and highly organized Dominican drug underworld.

Halloween in Detroit. Two tales of one city. Around the notorious 8 Mile Road, the street slingers are stocking up and looking for new opportunities downtown. In the suburbs, middle class dealers take party drugs into raves. Both groups have to dodge the Border Patrol and the suburban cops. For a frantic forty-eight hours over 'devil's night,' drugs, guns, money, busts, and bodies flood Detroit.

'Ghost' is a kingpin who moves huge amounts of heroin into Pittsburgh, PA. But the police are making it harder and now Ghost has competition from wannabe hustlers ready to muscle in on the market. There is a big market of pill heads out of town and Ghost thinks they are ripe for exploitation. But he hasn't figured in the most aggressive narcotics cops in PA: The Attorney General's Drug Task Force. And they are waiting for him.

There is a world where the norm is living from hit to hit. The dark side of drug use rears its ugly head when those who have fallen into its deadly grip can no longer see the reality of their problems. Addiction holds them in its clutches and the only life they know is feeding the hunger within. Like zombies, The Living Dead battle to get well by any means necessary.

Grim Reaper sheds light on the dark side of the drug trade. From the hit man, to the DEA, to the dealers and users, Drugs, Inc. examines the business of drugs when lives are lost.

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. But a meth habit is hard to hide. Get caught and you may end up like Michael: jobless, homeless and living in a shanty called the Jungle.

Heroin use on Staten Island is reaching epic proportions as young users leave prescription pills for dope. Meet the dealers, police officers and users overcome by the opiate.

Follow the rise in demand for narcotics during Mardi Gras, Spring Break, Independence Day, and New Year's Eve, through the eyes of dealers, law enforcement and users.

For the first time ever, 'Drugs, Inc' heads to Ghana and Nigeria to follow the supply of cocaine from Peru on a new trafficking route to Europe. West Africa is one of the world's most unstable regions. Its porous borders allow free movement of goods and people - making the region a drug trafficker's dream. South American suppliers send over 50 tons of cocaine to West Africa every year. But the law busts less than 1%.

Drug organizations capitalize on the freedom of those in their employ. It's law enforcement's job to take these drug dealers off the street. Unfortunately, some inmates find new life in the drug game while in prison. The cartels' reach stretches through steel and concrete and grabs the hopes and dreams of those continuing their Business Behind Bars.

For the first time ever, Drugs Inc. heads to Australia. With the price of drugs so high, Australians have turned to a cheap and dangerous stimulant, crystal meth - known locally as ice. Use of the drug has reached epidemic proportions, feeding the power of the biker gangs that control the trade. Public outcry is forcing the authorities to act, but as the 'bikies' fall some Triads are stepping in to fill the vacuum.

In Austin, Texas, thousands of artists and over a million fans flock to the "live music capital of the world" every year, and where there's live music and festivals, drugs are never far away. With so many potential customers, competition among sellers is fierce. The Sinaloa cartel uses a network of traffickers and runners to smuggle huge shipments of ice into Texas from Mexico, but the A.T.F. and Border Patrol are trying to cut it off.

Thanks to recently relaxed possession laws in Massachusetts, student dealers like Anubis, Kane, and Stiffler are ramping up their supplies. To fund their own studies, they are selling an array of narcotics to the booming student population in Boston. But with 'national weed day' around the corner, the police are also on the look-out.

Thailand is in the grip of an addiction epidemic that is spinning out of control, as a candy-colored meth pill called yaba overtakes every other drug used in the country. Yaba in Thai means 'crazy medicine,' and heavy use of the pill can trigger psychosis. The death penalty hangs over every dealer, but that does not seem to deter them. Dealers find many ways to dodge the cops and customs authorities to keep the profits rolling in.

Vancouver has been voted one of the best places to live in North America, but it has a darker side. In a wealthy suburb, two gangs are fighting each other for control of the local cocaine trade. Gang enforcement cops swarm the streets nightly to hunt down shooting suspects and stem the escalating tide of violence. But heavy police presence is pushing dealers to relocate downtown, and customers are gravitating towards them.

From the Silicon Valley to international cities across the globe, dealers balance the need to hold enough merchandise to make a profit with keeping the law at bay. But with the overwhelming demand for drugs, it's not just the cops chasing down dealers - it's the users too. Chasing the High sheds light on this perfect storm of supply and demand at the heart of a business we call Drugs, Inc.