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Drugs, Inc. - Wasted in Seattle
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Drugs, Inc. - Wasted in Seattle

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Seattle has earned the nickname 'Junky Town,' and this episode of the National Geographic series Drugs, Inc. tracks why. The city's relatively lenient drug enforcement and needle-exchange policies, combined with steady demand, have turned it into fertile ground for dealers moving heroin, meth, and prescription opioids. Cameras follow users shooting up in alleys and under bridges, dealers explaining how they price and cut product for maximum profit, and police and outreach workers describing a harm-reduction approach that treats addiction as a public health problem rather than purely a crime. Interviews with addicts lay out the daily math of scoring, using, and avoiding overdose, while officers patrol neighborhoods where open drug use is common enough to be background noise. The series' usual structure holds: dealer, user, and enforcement perspectives cut together without much narration standing between them and the camera. The picture that emerges is of a city whose progressive stance on addiction has an unintended side effect, making it a magnet for the trade it's trying to manage.