Dalia Al-Aqidi: US President Joe Biden’s April announcement of his inaugural National Drug Control Strategy, which outlines a whole-of-government approach aimed at beating the overdose epidemic, is receiving praise from public health and safety leaders and congressional, state and local officials across the country.
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration defines any mental illness as having a diagnosable mental, behavioral or emotional disorder other than a developmental or substance use disorder. Any mental illness covers anybody who has a mild mental illness, moderate mental illness or severe mental illness. US Democratic Rep. French Hill last month praised the House Foreign Affairs Committee’s approval of a draft resolution on developing a strategy to disrupt and dismantle drug production and trafficking networks linked to the Syrian regime. Hill said in a July 29 press release that drugs “not only cripple local populations, they also serve to fuel hostilities and finance the Assad regime and Iran-backed groups in the region.”
The most popular opioid among teenagers is meth because it is very cheap and accessible. If you have watched “Breaking Bad,” you can clearly see how drug dealers do business and that young people take these drugs regardless of the possibility of overdose or death.
According to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 12 percent of people in America have a cognitive disability, even when adjusted for age. The percentage of people with mental disabilities ranges from 8.9 in some states to 19.6.
The Syrian regime, led by the family and friends of Bashar Assad, is a major manufacturer and exporter of Captagon, as well as a leader of trade in the drug with businessmen with close ties to Hezbollah. An investigation published last year by a local Syrian news organization on the spread of drugs in the south of the country stated that the number of drugs that entered Jordan across the border with Syria in 2020 was estimated at 40 tons of hashish and more than 83 million Captagon pills.
After the Jordanian authorities reopened the country’s borders with Syria, the flow of drugs dramatically increased. This is precisely how Biden opened America’s borders to illegal migrants, welcoming the good, the bad and the ugly. The drugs cartels have been living “la vida loca” as business is booming, and they have back orders on human trafficking.
The Middle East and drugs have similar stories in Afghanistan, Iran, Lebanon and Iraq. And you can imagine how the militants and terrorists in these countries operate to fund their activities. Hezbollah depends on its drug harvests for both use and sale.
Drugs enter Iraq from more than one source, but the most abused type is Iranian meth due to its low price and substantial impact on the user. Drug abuse in Iraq is not limited to a particular city or a geographical area but includes all regions, from Kurdistan in the north to the country’s south.
Some towns have even become manufacturers of narcotics. I watched several of the videos made by terrorists before they carried out their evil attacks in Iraq and other places and noted that these young men must have been on some sort of drugs. No one in their right mind would be willing to kill themselves in order to hurt innocent people.
