Pediatric body packing: Drug smuggling reaches a new low

Abstract

The case of a 6-year-old boy presenting with severe clinical manifestations of an opioid intoxication and who is discovered to be an international "body packer" is presented and discussed. This article is the first to report on the phenomenon of body packing in young children. It also highlights the use of prescription opioids as cargo, which has not previously been addressed in the literature. Copyright © 2005 by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.