Syria: Inside Captagon drug factory which funded Assad’s brutal regime

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