Drug production and abuse have wreaked havoc in all corners of the world. Zooming into the Middle East, Captagon has emerged as a lucrative business. The pills are primarily made by chemists and scientists in Syria, where production factories generate profits said to be three times that of all Mexican cartels combined. In Egypt,12-year-olds are becoming addicted to synthetic drugs such as Astrox, In Yemen, warring fighters can often be spotted taking “qat breaks” together— a very strange sight