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What you'll see on 60 Minutes this Sunday will leave you gobsmacked. It's Australia's next drug crisis and experts say it will be larger and more devastating that the ice epidemic. Synthetic drugs are powerful, mind-altering chemicals, and they are killing Australian teenagers. They are designed to mimic the effects of cocaine, ecstasy and marijuana - some are 60 times more potent than LSD, but your first hit could be your last.
No one knows the devastation of this clandestine world better than Perth dad, Rod Bridge, who lost his son Preston to a synthetic drug two years ago. Rod set out on a quest to discover where these killer drugs were coming from. In this special investigation, 60 Minutes follows Rod on his undercover mission that leads him all the way to the drug bosses of China. They are the biggest producers of the synthetic drugs which are flooding into Australia undetected on an unprecedented scale. Rod bravely wears a listening device and hidden cameras through several dangerous meetings with the drug bosses.
It's a rare glimpse into this sinister world. 60 Minutes will be offered at least 5 different types of synthetic drugs in various meetings for import to Australia. The drug dealers demonstrate how they pack the drugs to get past the Australian Border Force - in fact they think our Customs is a joke. The drug lords will offer 60 Minutes 200 kilos of one drug alone, and multiple quantities of other drugs.