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A Lebanese security official holds a handful of confiscated captagon pills in his palm at the judicial police headquarters in the city of Zahle in Lebanon's central Bekaa valley on July 21, 2022. (Photo by JOSEPH EID/AFP via Getty Images) — A Lebanese security official holds a handful of confiscated Captagon pills at a police station in the city of Zahle in Lebanon's central Bekaa Valley July 21, 2022. — JOSEPH EID/AFP via Getty Images

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