Watch the trailer for Asia’s Meth Wars (VIDEO)

From Thai border police on a quest to stop the flood of drugs coming through their borders, to Christian anti-drug vigilantes taking the law into their own hands, GlobalPost senior correspondent Patrick Winn and filmmaker Mark Oltmanns explore the consequences of a meth empire flooding Asia, built with the tacit support of the army in Myanmar's lawless borderlands.

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