Members of the US Congress and Senate sent a letter to the US Secretary of State last week, requesting that the Biden administration determine whether Syria should be designated a “major drug transit country.” The letter sent on 15 July said there has been a “troubling increase in Captagon exports from Assad regime-affiliated networks”, which “represents a security threat to the region itself.” Captagon is methamphetamine designed to treat narcolepsy but popularised in media for its use by fighters in Syria’s civil war. A US Senator and two congresspeople, including French Hill, who introduced…