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Host, Jamie Clifton, looks at some of the chaos caused by recreational drug prohibition.

Photographer Gabriele Micalizzi was given rare access to Russian troops fighting in Ukraine.

Drug cartels are more innovative than most legitimate companies. From narco-submarines to sex toys, we look at the most inventive ways cartels have smuggled drugs.

From poaching endangered shellfish to smoking quaaludes, this is the wild origin story of how meth took over South Africa.

The Jalisco New Generation Cartel are Mexico’s deadliest narco empire. But amidst rumours that their leader is actually dead – could this all be about to crumble?

A former drug mule reveals how he made €20,000 per trip smuggling cocaine across Europe.

The global cocaine trade has been revolutionised by Albanian mafia groups. We show how these groups really operate, using business innovation and brutal violence to maintain their power.

How did the street gang MS-13 become the deadliest gang in Central America, virtually taking over entire cities? How do they actually fit into the global narco-trade?

Getting screamed at, sexual harassment and finding porn on the bosses’ school laptop. An English teacher reveals the horrors of working at South Korea’s notorious private “Hagwon” Schools.

New Zealand is overrun with meth and new synthetic drugs – sold by fierce biker gangs. But, this is how one psychedelic rockstar almost managed to end their War on Drugs!

The Syrian government have become some of the world’s biggest amphetamine dealers – flooding the Middle East with the drug Captagon to finance their war machine.

OneTaste’s practice of “orgasmic meditation” is billed as the next women’s sexual revolution, but behind its meteoric, star-dusted rise are dark secrets and allegations of abuse.