his teenage daughter, how becomes addicted to crack cocaine and nearly destroys her life (sic). We (sic) also meet a Mexican general who has made it his goal to destroy a drug cartel-but not for the reasons he claims. And (sic) we see how corruption between Mexican and U.S. authorities is compromised because key people on both sides may be corrupt, and betray secrets. The movie is inspired by a five-part "Masterpiece Theater" series named "Traffik," which ran ten years ago and traced the movement of heroin from the poppy fields of Turkey to the streets of Europe. The story in North America is much the same, which is why adapting this material was so depressingly easy. At every level, the illegal drug business is about making money. If there is anything more lucrative than an addictive substance that is legal, like alcohol or tobacco, it is one that is illegal, like drugs-because the suppliers aren't taxed or regulated and have no overhead for advertising, packaging, insurance, employee benefits or quality control. Drugs are produced by subsistence-level peasants and move through a distribution chain of street sellers; costs to the end user are kept low, to e
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