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Syria: Inside Captagon drug factory which funded Assad’s brutal regime
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It's been called the poor man's cocaine.
Captagon: the drug that funded Bashar al-Assad's brutal rule in Syria.
It's an amphetamine which - in high doses - induces feelings of euphoria and invulnerability.
Popular with soldiers, they say it offers 'chemical courage' and reportedly suppresses pain.
And it's made the Assad family billions - more than 10 billion dollars a year, by recent estimates. Money it used to shore up a crumbling dynasty.
Correspondent: Lindsey Hilsum
Filmed and edited by Soren Munk
Produced by Rob Hodge
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