Soldiers have a shoot-to-kill policy to stop millions of Captagon pills being smuggled from Syria.
The Jordanian army is facing an increasingly deadly fight against drug traffickers based in Syria
Fighting from the decade-long war in Syria may have died down, but the country's transformation into a narco-state is sowing new seeds of misery across this region. "The consequences of taking it are very serious. They can include violence and psychosis," says Dr Ali al-Qam, a consultant psychiatrist and clinical director.
Now, with the Syrian economy shattered by a decade of war and still stifled by international sanctions, it has turned into a multi-billion-dollar industry, worth far more than any legal exports. The pills regularly show up in ports, airports and at crossing points - often expertly hidden. They have been found inside containers of machinery and fruits - even fake ones. The Jordanian authorities have released footage of them being removed from animal carcasses.Once it was wave upon wave of Syrian refugees that spilt across the border into Jordan. Now, it is drugs.
Jordan is largely a transit route to the drug's biggest market: the Gulf states, particularly Saudi Arabia.
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