Body Packing – The way to obscure illicit drugs
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Consequence of body packing of illicit drugs.
BACKGROUND During the last decade, increased rates of drug traffic have led the smugglers to use various methods. One of these methods of illicit drug smuggling is body packing. Smuggling by intra-abdominal concealment is called "body packing". In this research, mortality rate was investigated due to body packing in Tehran. METHODS A descriptive study (case series) was designed on all corpses...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Southwest Respiratory and Critical Care Chronicles
سال: 2013
ISSN: 2325-9205
DOI: 10.12746/swrccc2013.0103.030