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Lebanon Steps Up Against Captagon Trafficking Network

Bassam Abou Zeid, 24/09 20:00 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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In 2025, Lebanon achieved a significant breakthrough in the fight against the manufacturing and trafficking of Captagon pills– inflicting losses of hundreds of millions of dollars on those behind these illicit operations. Lebanese security forces demonstrated their ability to confront this criminal cartel – a challenge of major local, regional ...

Addiction: The Body Speaks the Unspoken

David Sahyoun, 24/09 18:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

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Understanding addiction means looking beyond the mere fact of dependency. If the first part traced the origins of emptiness and the formation of lack, the challenge now is to grasp why—when suffering cannot be symbolized—the body steps in and makes the symptom speak. Since Freud, psychoanalysis has tried to probe what escapes language: ...

Cocaine Market: Low Prices, High Health Risks

Christiane Tager, 07/09 09:44 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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Cocaine prices are falling, but the risks are rising. In Lebanon, as elsewhere, a gram has never been cheaper. It may seem like a “good deal,” but behind the low price lies a harsh reality: regulated use, a growing number of addicts and mounting health risks. Cocaine, or “coke” to regular users, is circulating more freely than ever. ...

Lebanon Seizes Record Cocaine Shipment from Brazil at Tripoli Port in Saudi-Coordinated Operation

This is Beirut, 02/09 18:00 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

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In what Interior Minister Ahmad al-Hajjar called a “historic” operation, Lebanese authorities have intercepted the largest cocaine shipment the country has seen in years. Speaking at a press conference on Tuesday afternoon, Hajjar revealed that the operation was made possible through “coordinated efforts with Saudi ...

Salloum Warns of Threat from Expired Medicines

This is Beirut, 01/09 11:10 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

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Expired medications piled up in pharmacies pose a significant threat to patient safety. This is what Dr. Joe Salloum, head of the Lebanese Pharmacists’ Syndicate, expressed, calling on the Ministries of Health and Environment to ensure that expired drugs are collected and destroyed outside Lebanon. He stressed that the risk they present is ...

ISF Foils Cocaine Smuggling Attempt from Nigeria

This is Beirut, 13/08 11:15 - Reading : less than a minute

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The Internal Security Forces (ISF) announced Wednesday the seizure of 156 cocaine-filled capsules weighing 3.4 kilograms, with an estimated street value exceeding $500,000 once mixed with other substances. According to an ISF statement, the Central Anti-Narcotics Office uncovered an international network planning to smuggle the drugs from Nigeria ...

Lebanese Army Dismantles One of Largest Captagon Factories in Baalbeck Area

This is Beirut, 14/07 15:30 - Reading : less than a minute

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The Lebanese Army dismantled a major Captagon factory in the town of Yammouneh, in the Baalbeck area, on Monday, in what authorities described as one of the largest drug facilities ever seized in the country. According to a statement from the Army Command, the raid was carried out by a unit from the Intelligence Directorate, supported by military ...

Lebanese Army Arrests Several Traffickers, Seizes Weapons and Drugs in Zebdine

This is Beirut, 30/06 10:35 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

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The Lebanese Army carried out a series of raids on Sunday in Zebdine (Nabatiyeh district), following armed clashes that erupted on June 25 in the Sabra and Shatila camps between rival drug trafficking gangs. In a statement issued Monday, the army announced the arrest of four individuals: three Lebanese nationals (M.Ch., H.G., and A.K.) and one ...

Syrian Authorities Seize 3 Million Captagon Pills Near Lebanese Border

This is Beirut, 27/06 20:10 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

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Syria said Friday that authorities had seized some three million pills of the illicit stimulant captagon after clashes with a drug trafficking network near the Lebanese border. Authorities observed the network "coming from Lebanon into Syrian territory" via illegal border crossings in the Jarajir area in the northern Damascus countryside, said a ...

Trump Says Will Sign Order Aimed at Cutting US Drug Prices

This is Beirut, 12/05 05:30 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

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President Donald Trump unveiled plans Sunday for a new policy on pharmaceuticals he claimed would reduce US prescription drug prices by between 30 and 80 percent. "They will rise throughout the World in order to equalize and, for the first time in many years, bring FAIRNESS TO AMERICA!" Trump wrote in a social media post, adding he ...

LAF Seizes Captagon Lab Near Syrian Border

This is Beirut, 05/05 10:10 - Reading : less than a minute

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The Lebanese Army uncovered a drug-manufacturing laboratory near the Syrian border on Monday, seizing a large quantity of Captagon pills and raw materials used in their production during a raid in the Harf al-Sammaqa area of Hermel, a region known for cross-border smuggling. In a statement published on its official X account, the army said the ...

Six Kilograms of Drugs Seized at Beirut Airport

This is Beirut, 07/03 19:50 - Reading : less than a minute

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Six kilograms of Captagon were seized at Beirut airport, in the suitcases of two Syrians. In a statement issued on Friday, the General Directorate of the Internal Security Forces (ISF) announced that a unit of the airport control brigade “seized overnight around 6 kg of Captagon tablets, concealed in aluminum foil, as if they were chocolate ...

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