Name: Higher Stakes
Genre: Comedy
Duration: 25 min

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VICELAND

Drug addicts in the UK shoplift meat and other everyday items to sell to the impoverished.

Black Market With Michael K. Williams

Lifted in London

An illegal gambling underworld flourishes in New York City; the largest losers are sometimes the ones running the games.

Higher Stakes

A dangerous opioid-based cough syrup becomes a pop culture sensation across the Unites States.

The Lean Scene

Gunrunners move weapons from American states with loose laws to states with stricter ones, in a never ending flow that law enforcement can't seem to stop.

Iron Pipeline

Fishermen in Hout Bay, South Africa turn to poaching to survive as a result of less of opportunity in the post-apartheid years.

Illicit Abalone

In Newark N.J., unemployment and lack of hope turns a tradition of joyriding stolen cars into an international criminal operation.

New Jersey Drive

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Michael shares his own experiences about addiction, crime and poverty with people he meets who are living with the same problems.

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