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Anyone for Coffee and Heroin? Inside a Danish Narcotics Dispensary
Item# 50127
© 2011
58 Min.
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DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-62290-834-9
It’s early in the morning, but already several patients have gathered outside a small Copenhagen clinic. They’re waiting anxiously for the doors to open so a nurse can dispense their heroin. Yes, they...
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Deadly Prescriptions: Crime Inc.—The Underground Economy
Item# 47322
© 2011
44 Min.
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DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-62102-401-9
Retail prescription drug sales topped $300 billion in 2010 alone, and criminals are doing everything they can to get a piece of the market. This CNBC program takes a hard look at illegal enterprises t...
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Illegal Gambling: Crime Inc.—The Underground Economy
Item# 47321
© 2011
44 Min.
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DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-62102-400-2
Although mobsters and bookies haven’t exactly gone away, technology has made illegal gambling more accessible to the everyday person. This CNBC program goes inside the high-stakes world of illicit be...
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Opium: A Blessing and a Curse
Item# 43751
© 2010
78 Min.
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DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-61733-705-5
A drug with two faces, opium is both a powerful medication and an addictive intoxicant. It’s a multibillion-dollar crop for drug runners and the pharmaceutical industry alike, and a flashpoint in a...
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Opium: For Pleasure and for Pain
Item# 43753
© 2010
26 Min.
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DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-61733-707-9
Both the painkilling and pleasurable effects of opium have been known in ancient cultures around the world for millennia. The narcotic arrived in the U.S. with the first Chinese immigrants, but it was...
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Opium: The War on Drugs
Item# 43752
© 2010
26 Min.
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DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-61733-706-2
Decades after Richard Nixon launched his antidrug campaign, illicit opiates are cheaper, more potent, and easier to obtain than ever. Is it possible to wipe out addiction by keeping narcotics illegal,...
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Opium: Traders and Traffickers
Item# 43754
© 2010
26 Min.
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DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-61733-708-6
The drug lords of Afghanistan sell their goods packaged, branded, and labeled with guarantees, mimicking the marketing of legal forms of opiates. Yet legitimate drug companies themselves face censure...
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Mexico's Drug Wars
Item# 43352
© 2010
50 Min.
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DVD ISBN: 978-1-61733-529-7
Violence is raging in Mexico as rival drug cartels battle for control of smuggling routes to the U.S. And although President Calderón has vowed to end trafficking, the only result appears to be an esc...
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Marijuana Inc: Inside America's Pot Industry
Item# 40554
© 2009
45 Min.
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DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-61616-463-8
Iowa has corn. Kansas has wheat. The preferred crop in northern California, however, will never be a Wall Street commodity. This CNBC Original documentary examines the pot industry of Mendocino County...
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Cannabis: The Evil Weed?
Item# 40398
© 2009
51 Min.
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DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-60825-823-9
How addictive is cannabis? Does it lead to harder drug use, or is it an underappreciated herbal medicine? Can it cause mental illness? This program explores the science and the public debate surroundi...
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