Captagon is an amphetamine-type stimulant that was first produced in the 1960s to treat conditions such as narcolepsy and ...

Stockpiles of the amphetamine-like drug fenethylline, known by its brand name Captagon, were recently discovered by ...

Worth approximately $10 billion, the illicit captagon drug trade served as a financial lifeline for the Assad regime in Syria ...

Captagon trade under the Assad regime generated billions annually for Syria, according to a 2023 study by the nonprofit ...

Over the past decade, the al-Assad government has been accused of being the principal purveyor of Captagon, a highly ...

The drug has the active ingredient fenethylline and was initially marketed for conditions including ADHD and the sleeping ...

Captagon was briefly approved in the United States before becoming a controlled substance in the 1980s. The drug remained ...

Social media video surfaced Wednesday allegedly showing a warehouse in Syria stacked with captagon, an illicit drug that had transformed the country into a narco-state under former President Bashar al ...

Its chemical name is fenethylline, but it is generally known by the brand name under which it was first marketed. The drug "leaves users feeling confident and alert, along with a sensation of ...

Stockpiles of the amphetamine-like drug fenethylline, known by its brand name Captagon, were recently discovered by opposition forces in Syria in the wake of former president Bashar al-Assad’s ...