How the Assads used a civil war to turn Syria into a narco state

Before the fall of the Assad regime in Syria, a luxury villa outside Damascus was used as a factory to produce the highly addictive drug Captagon. The regime trafficked the drug to countries in the region, earning billions of dollars to prop up the collapsing economy during the civil war. Captagon, originally created as a legal pharmaceutical, became a popular illicit party drug known for its energy-boosting effects. The evidence of this extensive drug operation is now coming to light with Assad no longer in power.

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