RT Journal
A1 Osterhoudt KC
T1 CHildren and drug smuggling
JF Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine
JO Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine
YR 2003
FD July 1
VO 157
IS 7
SP 703
OP 703
DO 10.1001/archpedi.157.7.703
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archpedi.157.7.703
AB 
The sensational newspaper headlines detailing the 5-year-old girl found carrying 2 suitcases with 2.3 lb of heroin off of a flight from Bogota to New York2 certainly heralded the rising role of children in drug smuggling efforts. Similarly, the British Broadcasting Corporation recently reported the arrest of a 13-year-old girl caught smuggling more than 2 million dollars worth of heroin at the Manchester Airport.3USA Today has further chronicled the increased use of teenagers as drug couriers, and described some of the sociologic factors driving such practices.4