Seizure of a truck full of "Dardak" in Dakhla

A nice catch by the gendarmerie in Dakhla. The gendarmes of the region seized a truck transporting a large quantity of the famous medicine commonly called Dardak, which causes rapid weight gain. The vehicle, which was coming from Mauritania, was transporting about 6,000 boxes of 100 tablets each of a medicine called Dexamethasone, which is a synthetic glucocorticoid hormone. It is actually an anti-inflammatory used recently by women to gain weight. It is also used illegally with other doping and anabolic products in livestock farming to make animals gain weight faster, by increasing the protein content while decreasing the lipid rate. Hence its prohibition for athletes and racehorses.In the truck in question, 1,500 boxes of another product called Cyproheptadine were also seized, the long-term use of which can stimulate appetite and thus lead to weight gain, useful for people with underw…