Methamphetamine floods Asia under a dozen street names, ya ba, shabu, ice, speed, and this 101 East episode follows the drug from clandestine factories that outproduce anything police can seize to the young users driving demand higher each year. Reporters visit government rehabilitation centres where hundreds of thousands of people across the region are held involuntarily, and cite figures showing 60 to 95 percent of residents relapse after release, evidence critics use to call the camps inhumane as well as ineffective. Against that record, the film sets a community-based program in Malaysia that treats addiction as a chronic illness rather than a crime, tracking users through counseling and support rather than detention, and makes the financial case that treatment costs less than incarceration. The episode opens with a global commission's blunt verdict that the war on drugs has failed, then tests that claim against Asia's specific mix of underground production, mass detention, and one country's attempt at a different model.