Posted on 08/20/2017 11:45:02 AM PDT by heterosupremacist
ISIS fighters have been using a drug called Captagon, dubbed “chemical courage,” to stay alert in battle.
What is Captagon?
Captagon is a psychostimulant which is made of a combination of amphetamine and theophylline.
It is just one brand name of a group of drugs known as Fenethylline.
The drug came into the mainstream in 1961 and was used for around 25 years as a milder alternative to amphetamines.
It was used to treat kids with ADHD and, less commonly, for narcolepsy and depression.
Unlike amphetamines, Captagon does not increase the patient’s blood pressure – meaning it could be used to treat those with cardiovascular conditions.
However, it is highly addictive – and became illegal in most countries in 1986.
You’d struggle to get your hands on it in the US but Captagon is a popular recreational drug in the Middle East.
It’s made cheaply, with a street value of between $5 and $19, in countries including Jordan, Lebanon, Turkey and Syria. Fake versions of the drug are also widely available.
In October 2015, Prince Abdel Mohsen Bin Walid Bin Abdulaziz, of Saudi Arabia and four others were arrested in Beirut on suspicion of drug trafficking.
Two tons of Captagon pills and some cocaine were allegedly found aboard a private jet scheduled to fly to the Saudi capital of Riyadh.
Suicide bombers, like Manchester terrorist Salman Abedi, are said to be pumped full of drugs before they are sent on a mission, giving them red eyes and a distinctive look of confusion.
The drug turns the terrorists into “unforgiving killing machines,” Arab News reports.
The drugs often leave extremists suffering from a crippling addiction, further boosting their reliance on their cruel jihadi masters.
According to reports, a growing number of demoralized Syrian citizens have also resorted to taking the drug.
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A bunch of drugged-up, kill-crazy psychopaths. Send them to North Korea...that would be interesting.
The real “drug” is islam.
Most of the Nazi military in WWII were high on crystal meth, handed out with their rations. It worked pretty well for a while.
ADHD and asthma meds. Doesn’t sound that exciting once you get past the blaring headlines.
Naw. Costs too much. Toss them into a roaring raging furnace. Maybe they'd experience what they would have inflicted on innocent people. Pieces of Muzzlime filth, only worth the chemicals we could use as fertilizer.
Better to send them all to hell.
Better to send them all to hell.
BS...it’s just imams, the Koran, and simple hatred and giving into it...
islam is indeed the international terrorists drug of choice, whereas the drug of choice of America's internal terrorists is entitlements.
It is ISLAM that turns them into “unforgiving killing machines”....
Hey, I’ve got an idea. Let’s bring a lot of them to the USA so they can bring their drug with them!
They bring Captogon and our a$$holes are doing heroine.
Hey America, where's your blade of grass? If you even know what that means.
One of the Yazidi sex slave children who escaped said it was horrific when they came to them on drugs and raped them. I wonder if this was the drug she was talking about.
Headshots cure that
My friends and I will require many blades of grass.
Yep, Eukadol and Pervitin. Of course Allied troops had their bennies/benzedrine.
The nazis had a “go pill” called Pervitin that was widely used. Hitler himself was a fan of the drug.
So were the japs.
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