{"id":25842,"date":"2024-08-16T07:18:10","date_gmt":"2024-08-16T01:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=25842"},"modified":"2025-04-07T21:35:46","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T16:05:46","slug":"captagon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/captagon\/","title":{"rendered":"Captagon"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Captagon:\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a highly addictive <strong>amphetamine-type drug<\/strong>, which is <strong>produced <\/strong>mainly in <strong>Syria.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The original Captagon contained fenetylline, a synthetic drug of the phenethylamine family to which amphetamine also belongs.<\/li>\n<li>It was <strong>commercially sold<\/strong> in several countries <strong>until the 1980s<\/strong> and was banned due to fears of its highly addictive nature.<\/li>\n<li>It is commonly known as <strong>\u201cpoor man\u2019s cocaine<\/strong>,\u201d has emerged as the drug of choice among young adults throughout the <strong>Middle East and North Africa.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is a <strong>synthetic drug<\/strong> which was <strong>originally manufactured<\/strong> in <strong>Germany<\/strong> in the 1960s and 1970s where it was intended to treat attention deficit disorders.<\/li>\n<li>The pill <strong>contains fenethylline<\/strong>, a synthetic amphetamine, caffeine, and other stimulants.\n<ul>\n<li>Fenethylline is <strong>metabolized b<\/strong>y the body into two molecules: <strong>amphetamine and theophylline<\/strong>, both of which are stimulants.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>It was made illegal in 1986 in most countries and discontinued in <strong>medical markets.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Concern:<\/strong> It has become a major concern for countries in the Middle East like Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is a synthetic drug?<\/h3>\n<p>It is a drug with properties and effects similar to a known hallucinogen or narcotic but having a slightly altered chemical structure, especially such a drug created in order to evade restrictions against illegal substances.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/explained\/explained-global\/drug-captagon-germany-link-explained-9513706\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">What is the drug Captagon, and how is it linked to Germany?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Captagon  is a highly addictive amphetamine-type drug, which is produced mainly in Syria.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":25843,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-25842","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25842\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}