{"id":42941,"date":"2020-12-21T17:03:40","date_gmt":"2020-12-21T21:03:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=42941"},"modified":"2020-12-21T17:03:40","modified_gmt":"2020-12-21T21:03:40","slug":"captagon-the-battlefield-drug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=42941","title":{"rendered":"CAPTAGON: The Battlefield Drug"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/av\/embed\/p0921hqf\/55378461\" width=\"400\" height=\"500\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div class=\"css-1u9a4pt-HeadingContainer elwf6ac4\">\n<h1 id=\"main-heading\" class=\"css-ypmsa8-StyledHeading e1fj1fc10\" tabindex=\"-1\">Captagon: Destroying the frontline drug<\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"css-1p48mn5-StyledSummary elwf6ac2\">\n<div class=\"css-1fkldiz-RevealTextWrapper eaicxnf0\" aria-live=\"polite\">\n<div class=\"css-83cqas-RichTextContainer e5tfeyi2\">\n<p>A massive seizure of the drug Captagon in Italy has revealed the scale of illegal drug production in Syria.<\/p>\n<p>It is the largest haul ever seized, with a street value of more than $1bn (\u00a3900m) and was followed by smaller drug raids across the Middle East, in what appears to be a co-ordinated effort against the lucrative narcotics trade likely run by the Syrian regime and its allies.<\/p>\n<p>The amphetamine, Captagon is used recreationally across the Middle East but is also taken by fighters who say it gives them a feeling of invincibility on the frontlines.<\/p>\n<p>The BBC&#8217;s Middle East correspondent Quentin Sommerville gained exclusive access to the drugs&#8217; journey to an incinerator.<\/p>\n<p><i class=\"css-po6dm6-ItalicText e5tfeyi1\">Produced and edited by Fabian Chaundy and Julian Miglierini<\/i><\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/av\/world-55378461\">https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/av\/world-55378461<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42941\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}