The production of Captagon has become the Syrian regime’s primary method to bypass sanctions and finance its human rights atrocities in Syria. For this reason, SETF recently pushed for the passage of the Captagon bill to disrupt and dismantle Bashar Al-Assad’s narcotics production and trafficking.Captagon is an illegal and addictive amphetamine popular in many Arab countries, with effects not unlike those of similar drugs popular in the U.S. Over the past decade, captagon manufacturing and commerce linked to the Syrian regime have proliferated in Syria and grown into a multibillion-dollar operation. The Bashar al-Assad regime has relied on illicit drug trafficking to bypass sanctions imposed through the 2019 Caesar Act to fund its machinery of death.