Addicted to Captagon

How Syria's military elite and its fragile wartime economy got hooked on amphetamines.

Addicted to Captagon Captagon is a highly addictive drug that has ravaged the Middle East in recent years. Now investigative journalism network OCCRP, alongside BBC News Arabic, has uncovered new direct links between this multi-billion dollar drug trade and leading members of the Syrian Armed Forces and President Bashar al-Assad's family. With evidence from deep inside the narco state, they reveal Syria's military elite and its fragile wartime economy hooked on this lucrative illegal pill.


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