Since the ousting of Bashar al-Assad's regime, Syria’s new administration has concentrated its efforts on dismantling the country’s drug trade, a sector that fueled the economy of the former regime for years.

The fate of the drug trade in the Middle East is now in question after the downfall of Assad and the destruction of Hezbollah, along with the death of Nasrallah, whose era witnessed an unprecedented flow of narcotics into the Arab world.

More than a billion people around the world are currently obese, with expectations that nearly half of the world's population will be obese or overweight in 2030.