@article{ref1,
title="The gastrointestinal tract as a vehicle for drug smuggling",
journal="Gastrointestinal radiology",
year="1981",
author="Sinner, W. N.",
volume="6",
number="4",
pages="319-323",
abstract="Four cases of attempts to smuggle narcotics (marijuana, heroin, and cocaine) by swallowing a large number of drug-filled foreign bodies (condoms and capsules) and hiding them from customs authorities in the gastrointestinal canal during transit are described. This is compared with a psychiatric patient who swallowed 48 Vicks Inhalers. Drug smuggling by swallowing condoms or capsules containing narcotics is now a worldwide ethical-legal problem. It also is of therapeutic and prognostic importance as this may lead to such emergencies as mechanical obstruction, rupture of the drug-containing foreign bodies, and life-threatening intoxication of the carrier.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0364-2356",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}