against the backdrop of a longstanding lack of official sources of reliable information on illicit drug production trafficking and abuse among countries in the region there have been several media and anecdotal reports regarding the widespread abuse of counterfeit captagon tablets containing amphetamine among all parties engaged in armed violence in the syrian arab republic significantly for the first time in six years the afghanistan opium survey for which the executive summary is available notes that there has been a decrease in the estimated total area under illicit opium poppy cultivation in afghanistan which in totalled hectares ha that represents a decrease compared with when cultivation reached record levels at ha