Captagon Crisis: How Syria Became a Narco State | Free Documentary

Captagon is a highly addictive drug ravaging the Middle East: Investigative journalism network OCCRP, alongside BBC News Arabic, has uncovered new direct links between this multi-billion dollar drug trade and leading members of the Syrian Armed Forces and President Bashar al-Assad's family.

These investigative journalists are legends. It takes a lot of bravery to make such a documentary!This is world class investigation

So basically the Arab world is all hopped up on aderall?? In America we feed these pills to our 12 year olds like candy...

Always amazes me the lengths people go to smuggle drugs in/out. Imagine if that ingenuity/creativity was applied to something that could benefit the masses instead of hurting.

Free Documentary, you got the right person for this investigative reporting. It's very thorough in content.

We watch so many documentaries about the Cartels, South America, the Fentanyl crisis in the US, a the influx of drugs in Belgian ports, SouthEast Asia etc etc but never hear enough about issues in areas regarding drugs, such as these. I didn't even know Captagon was a thing until watching this. Amazing journalism. Thank you for this incredible view into this world. Investigative journalists are the real front-line soldiers in the war for Truth. Captagon is sadly an acronym for the impact of drugs on the whole world and its societies...Captured and Gone!

the dealer in the interview wouldn't recognize himself even if he has seen himself in the video.

Its not syria anymore, its CAPTOGONIA 🎉

Always watching from Georgetown Guyana south America 🇬🇾🇬🇾🇬🇾

Brilliant journalism

Interviewing and going all these places needs someone with nerves of steel.

Best documentary

I love respond of brigadier Mr. Mustafa . Respect big time. Those questions are above his payrate, the job is to protect Jordan 🇯🇴 land. I love his answer to her. 👏🏽👏🏽

Very very interesting and illuminating program. I took two main threads away from the show. Firstly I always wondered why America was interested in Syria, usually they get involved with the politics of a country that has a commodity the global elitist criminal families can exploit for massive profits, Vietnam/Thailand/Laos for the Golden Triangle drug trade, Afghanistan for the poppy/heroin trade...etc etc. So when I heard that Saudi Arabia was the biggest market for these tablets, and the long and nefarious connection the Bush crime family has with the House of Saud, suddenly the skies became clear! It's Mena Arkansas all over again! Wonder how many Captagons wild Billy Clinton can put away in a session. The other disturbing topic that hit me was the footage of surveillance cameras/drones/aircraft/satelittes being used by the Jordanian armed forces. Of course we know this technology exists, we see it when drug mules are entering the US from Mexico, when we're tracking the movement of Soviet armoured brigades in Ukraine, yet we are still expected to believe that the most sophisticated surveillance/spying country in the world, Israel, was caught by surprise by what would have been a huge convoy of vehicles/militia/microlites! Absolute nonsense.

Excellent journalist!

As far as amphetamines go captagon is barely stronger than pre workout powder but is more addictive. Only the middle east consider it a drug worth taking, it wouldn't sell in the west. Its like watching arabs destroy themselves on high doses of caffeine, sorta pathetic .

Very interesting story thank you 😮

Only the lebanais army working against this trade from 2 days they stoped like 10 millions captagon smuggling

They condemn alcohol but hashish n coptagon is where they draw the line 😂😂

Lebanon charged Saudi prince with Captagon smuggling and few other Saudis in 2015.