TY  - JOUR
T1  - CHildren and drug smuggling
AU  - Osterhoudt KC
Y1  - 2003/07/01
N1  - 10.1001/archpedi.157.7.703
JO  - Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine
SP  - 703
EP  - 703
VL  - 157
IS  - 7
N2  - 
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

SN  - 1072-4710
M3  - doi: 10.1001/archpedi.157.7.703
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archpedi.157.7.703
ER  -