Body packing and intra-vaginal body pushing of Cocaine: A case report.

Body packing was first reported in 1973 by Deitel and Syed [1], who described a 21-year-old patient who had developed small bowel obstruction after swallowing a condom filled with hashish. Currently, the word “body packer” is generally used to define a drug carrier who swallows packages of illicit drugs to hide them in his/her alimentary tract. These criminals carry several names: “body packers”, “couriers”, “swallowers”, “internal carriers” or “mules”.[2] Body packers commonly in gest large bags (2–8cm)[3] containing drugs prior to crossing international borders, to recover them after arrival at their destination.
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