TO GO WITH AFP STORY BY RIM HADDAD A customer waits for medication at a pharmacy in Damascus on September 17, 2013. Drug production in Syria has come to a near total halt in the country ever since the brutal war broke out 30 months ago, which has caused drug shortages of locally-produced medicines and foreign produced medicines are now being smuggled in at five times the price, a government newspaper warned. The portrait on the wall shows Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. AFP PHOTO / ANWAR AMRO (Photo credit should read ANWAR AMRO/AFP/Getty Images)
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