Body packing often involves drugs with a high street value (primarily heroin or cocaine) and is done to smuggle drugs across borders or other security checkpoints. The drugs may be …

Forty one of the fifty four machine-wrapped packets containing cocaine recovered from body stools of the first case. Body packers present to hospitals either because they have developed …

The three main smuggled drugs are cocaine, heroin and cannabis products. Body packing represents a serious risk of acute narcotic toxicity from drug exposure, intestinal obstruction …

After three days, the patient spontaneously evacuated 28 cocaine packs. Adequate clinical management and prompt identification of potential complications are of fundamental …

Mar 3, 2025 · "Body packers" are persons who, voluntarily or through coercion, swallow, or insert drug-filled packets into a body cavity, generally in an attempt to smuggle them across secure …

Dec 25, 2003 · Heroin overdose causes sedation, miosis, and diminished bowel sounds, which generally precede the onset of lethal respiratory depression. Cocaine overdose causes …

Nov 27, 2020 · This unique case report highlights the need for a multidisciplinary approach in managing patients that present with signs of cocaine toxicity after having ingested a large …

Aug 1, 2002 · Since these early reports, international smugglers have constructed new cocaine packets, more and more resistant to breakdown or leakage. In a large series, the rate of …

Mar 1, 2018 · Body packing is described as using the abdominal or pelvic cavity for concealing illegal drugs. Body pushers smuggle illicit drugs by inserting them into rectum or vagina.

Sep 4, 2018 · We present a case of an agitated and unwell cocaine body packer brought to our Emergency Department (ED) from jail, in whom we found severe pneumonia and HIV infection …