Chasing the Dragon
6 episodes · premiered Aug 3, 2022
Vietnam vets, mobsters, the Mujahideen, the CIA and Mexican drug lords: all play their part in this epic new season exploring the international heroin trade – and its deadly consequences in America and around the world.
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E1 How Sgt. Smack Hooked Up Harlem
In this enhanced episode, an army veteran helps flood Harlem with heroin.
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E2 Prince of Death
Drug lord Khun Sa floods New York, N.Y., with purity heroin until the DEA hatches a plan.
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E3 The Mob and the Mujahideen
The mob connects with the Mujahideen to create an ambitious heroin pipeline.
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E4 Narco Jihad
DEA agent Jeff Higgins sets out to avenge 9/11 by taking on an Afghan heroin kingpin and proving the close link between narcotics and terrorism.
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E5 Pain Pill Nation
Party bro and convicted felon Chris George floods the U.S. with addictive pain medication, until the FBI hatch a plan.
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E6 Opioid Apocalypse
How rogue chemists and street gangs brought fentanyl to America - and the vicious Mexican cartel that controls this deadly opioid today - the CJNG