Captagon is the brand name of the drug fenethylline hydrochloride, initially created in the 1960s in West Germany to treat conditions like attention deficit disorder, depression and narcolepsy ...

An AFP photographer saw security personnel in a Fourth Division warehouse load dozens of bags filled with pills ... the factory "specialised in packing captagon pills into children's toys and ...

Inside a so-called "soap factory" on the outskirts of Damascus, rebel fighters found "millions of Captagon pills and industrial quantities of precursor chemicals", said The Guardian – evidence ...

According to the head of Jordan’s narcotics department the number of Captagon pills seized by Jordanian authorities doubled in 2021 from the prior 2020 year. The amount of Captagon seized has ...

Rebel fighters who are now part of Syria's new de facto government have been seizing and burning large shipments of Captagon. That's the addictive amphetamine drug that was mass-produced and sold ...

Captagon is a highly addictive amphetamine used throughout the Middle East, with 80% of the world’s supply is produced in Syria. While armed groups involved in the civil war (including Islamic State) ...

Yet, if Captagon continues to spill across the border with Jordan or flow out of the country’s seaports, Washington and its allies should wield sanctions and other law enforcement measures to ...

With Syria’s new government cracking down on Captagon, where will production shift in the drug trade’s supply chain? Under Bashar al-Assad’s rule, Syria became a hub of Captagon production.