Foreign Correspondent: April 25

Foreign Correspondent this week enters the world of UK drug lords and addicts.

The UK illicit drug market is big business, worth an estimated 9.4 billion pounds a year. In small British towns in the north of England, drugs including weed, crack cocaine and heroin, are being warehoused and distributed by criminals who make large sums of money. They lead enviable lifestyles, attractive to many in these working-class towns.

This week on Foreign Correspondent reporter Ben Zand goes inside this dark and dangerous world. He meets the drug lords in secret locations and sees firsthand how they run their operations. The criminals reveal to Ben the lengths they go to avoid detection. He also meets the addicts who say the only support they get is from the drug dealers who feed their habits.

8pm Thursday on ABC.