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Despite the fall of Assad, the illicit drug trade in Syria is far from over

When Bashar Al-Assad ruled Syria, his regime was widely accused of profiting from the production and trafficking of Captagon, an illicit synthetic drug that is most commonly abused by users in the Middle East.

Read the full story, “Despite the fall of Assad, the illicit drug trade in Syria is far from over”, on globalissues.org

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