The Foreign Affairs Committee of the US House of Representatives has approved a proposed resolution outlining the US strategy for stopping drug production and trafficking and dismantling networks linked to Bashar al-Assad's regime in Syria.

The submitted draft stated that "trafficking in Captagon (The 'Poor Man's Cocaine') linked to the Assad regime constitutes a cross-border threat", and called on the US administration to dismantle its trade networks associated with the Syrian regime. This includes providing support to allies from the countries of the region into whose territory large quantities of captagon are introduced by organized smuggling squads.