The Syrian super-drug coming for Britain

The Syrian super-drug coming for Britain

I was meant to be shadowing the anti-drug squad. But when I call my contact in the Syrian government, as I huddle by the stove in my Damascus flat, there’s only bad news. “We’re overwhelmed,” he says apologetically, explaining that the unit I was meant to follow is busy fighting Kurds in the north. Before that, they were busy again, working to ensure that the revolution’s anniversary wasn’t disrupted by ISIS. Syria’s drug squads, in many ways, a…