A total of 227.7 kg of Captagon in tablet and powder form, valued at approximately Rs 182 crore, has been seized from a ...

Guess what we don't need: How about an inexpensive, addictive drug called fenethylline (aka captagon) that's pouring out of Syria and addicting hordes of people in Saudi Arabia and neighboring ...

Fenethylline is a combination of the drugs amphetamine and theophylline. It was formerly used to treat conditions such as ADHD, narcolepsy, and depression; but its use has been banned because of the ...

Following its ousting of the government of Bashar al-Assad in Syria last week, the opposition alliance led by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) invited international reporters to witness vast stockpiles and ...

An India Today OSINT investigation found Indian and foreign suppliers advertising Captagon on dark web marketplaces after a ...

Investigators found odd, little pills buried in the pockets of Hamas terrorists who attacked Israel on Oct. 7. They were later identified as the drug Captagon, a powerful, synthetic stimulant.

The vaccine can ease fenethylline abuse. © Getty Images/iStockphoto/Thinkstock Images Researchers have developed a new pharmacological approach to understand the ...

In the Middle East, the stimulant fenethylline is widely abused by young people. Terrorist organizations such as the Islamic State give it to devotees to enhance their aggression, alertness, ...

In addition, because fenethylline demonstrates rewarding effects in human users, we assessed whether it could induce a conditioned place preference (CPP). We found that training with fenethylline ...

As if Hamas terrorists were not monstrous enough, their handlers gave them bags of Captagon – a synthetic, amphetamine-type stimulant known on the Arabic drug market as Abu al-Hilalain. Consumed like ...

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Police in Italy have seized more than 84m fenethylline tablets, weighing 14 tonnes, at the port of Salerno, in what they say is the biggest seizure of amphetamines in the world. Fenethylline is known ...