One of the BBC's most prolific documentary makers, Louis Theroux, is back with his new series Dark States.
Louis visits three American cities and examines a uniquely devastating human crisis each episode – heroin addiction, sex trafficking and murder.
Heroin Town focuses on America's love affair with prescription painkillers which has led to widespread dependency on opiates.
With the pills now becoming increasingly expensive and scarce on the black market, vast numbers of Americans have turned to the cheaper and stronger opiate: heroin. The drug now claims more lives in the US than either car accidents or gun crime.
Trafficking Sex is set in Houston, the fourth largest city in the US, which is widely considered to be the number one hub for human trafficking in North America.
The US Department of Justice estimates that at least one in five of all the country's victims are trafficked through the city, and most of these people will be forced to work in the sex industry.
Finally,
Murder in Milwaukee looks at the city of Milwaukee, said to be one of the most racially divided and impoverished cities in the US.
With spiralling gun crime and homicide rates, this Midwestern city encapsulates America's complex and troubled relationship with guns and the increasing disharmony between African-American communities and the police.
| CHANNEL |
BBC Brit (DStv 120) |
| PREMIERE |
24 November 2017 |
| TIMESLOT |
Fridays, 20h00 |
| REPEATS |
Saturdays, 23h30
Sundays, 03h45
Mondays, 04h20 |