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Re: 'Poor Man's Cocaine' May Be Headed for US
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Aug 21, 2023, 1:35:03 AM8/21/23
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On 20 Aug 2023, Culture War <now...@protonmail.com> posted some
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> Thank you Biden family.
US officials are increasingly concerned about the likelihood of an
illegal, highly-addictive drug wreaking havoc in the US as its Middle East
producers, hungry for cash, face roadblocks in trafficking the drug at
home. Produced and distributed by groups tied to Syrian President Bashar
al-Assad and the allied Hezbollah in Lebanon, captagon, an amphetamine-
type stimulant dubbed "the poor man's cocaine," was prescribed for
conditions including ADHD and narcolepsy before it was banned
internationally decades ago. But it has proliferated in the Middle East in
the last decade, becoming "Syria's economic lifeline" amid civil war, per
CNN. Regional governments have begun cracking down, however, with more
than 1 billion pills seized in the last three years, per Bloomberg.
That's led producers to look for other markets. Senior European Union
officials now expect more captagon to flow into Europe given Syria's need
for money and what Bloomberg describes as "Assad's desire to export
addiction and social tensions to countries that in his view harmed him."
US officials fear the same thing will happen here. In June, the Biden
administration announced a strategy to "disrupt, degrade, and dismantle
the illicit captagon networks linked to the Assad regime" in accordance
with the Captagon Act, passed in 2022. The following month, a bipartisan
US bill was introduced, proposing new sanctions against Assad due to the
illicit production and trafficking of captagon.
Assad denies involvement in the drug trade and instead blames foreign
governments for sowing chaos in Syria that allowed captagon to flourish,
per Bloomberg. Some analysts say he is now using captagon as a bargaining
chip, telling regional governments that he can move against the drug trade
in exchange for their support for sanctions relief, per the AP. One only
needs to look at Saudi Arabia to see the consequences of captagon.
Consumption among young people is so great that it's viewed as a threat to
Prince Mohammed bin Salman's economic vision for the country, one that
relies on mobilizing the youth, per Bloomberg. The outlet cites a medic
who describes it as a gateway drug, with users transitioning to more
harmful options like crystal meth. (It's reportedly a favorite among
militants.)
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/poor-man-s-cocaine-may-be-headed-for-
us/ar-AA1fsHYc
news:ubuibj$1o0kq$9...@dont-email.me:
> Thank you Biden family.
US officials are increasingly concerned about the likelihood of an
illegal, highly-addictive drug wreaking havoc in the US as its Middle East
producers, hungry for cash, face roadblocks in trafficking the drug at
home. Produced and distributed by groups tied to Syrian President Bashar
al-Assad and the allied Hezbollah in Lebanon, captagon, an amphetamine-
type stimulant dubbed "the poor man's cocaine," was prescribed for
conditions including ADHD and narcolepsy before it was banned
internationally decades ago. But it has proliferated in the Middle East in
the last decade, becoming "Syria's economic lifeline" amid civil war, per
CNN. Regional governments have begun cracking down, however, with more
than 1 billion pills seized in the last three years, per Bloomberg.
That's led producers to look for other markets. Senior European Union
officials now expect more captagon to flow into Europe given Syria's need
for money and what Bloomberg describes as "Assad's desire to export
addiction and social tensions to countries that in his view harmed him."
US officials fear the same thing will happen here. In June, the Biden
administration announced a strategy to "disrupt, degrade, and dismantle
the illicit captagon networks linked to the Assad regime" in accordance
with the Captagon Act, passed in 2022. The following month, a bipartisan
US bill was introduced, proposing new sanctions against Assad due to the
illicit production and trafficking of captagon.
Assad denies involvement in the drug trade and instead blames foreign
governments for sowing chaos in Syria that allowed captagon to flourish,
per Bloomberg. Some analysts say he is now using captagon as a bargaining
chip, telling regional governments that he can move against the drug trade
in exchange for their support for sanctions relief, per the AP. One only
needs to look at Saudi Arabia to see the consequences of captagon.
Consumption among young people is so great that it's viewed as a threat to
Prince Mohammed bin Salman's economic vision for the country, one that
relies on mobilizing the youth, per Bloomberg. The outlet cites a medic
who describes it as a gateway drug, with users transitioning to more
harmful options like crystal meth. (It's reportedly a favorite among
militants.)
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/poor-man-s-cocaine-may-be-headed-for-
us/ar-AA1fsHYc
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