Drug smuggling by internal bodily concealment is a growing international problem. The management of a patient who swallowed packages containing heroin is described. The medical management, indications for surgery and the ethical dilemmas of treating patients with drugs concealed within the gastrointestinal tract are discussed.

Since 2003, the U.S. government has spent $850 million on the Megaport Initiative which aims at stopping the nuclear smuggling in international container shipping through advanced inspection facilities including Non-Intrusive Inspection (NII) and Mobile Radiation Detection and Identification System (MRDIS). Unfortunately, it remains a significant challenge to efficiently inspect more than 11.7 ...

The study of drug smuggling has often taken an organizational perspective whereby the structures how is constituted predominate. Building on a growing body scholarship addressing networked complexities this article considers importance distinct infrastructural arrangements. Its primary focus materiality infrastructures, and social, spatial temporal qualities these configurations overlap with li...

OBJECTIVE To assess the effect of the opening of the Taiwanese cigarette market on cigarette consumption, changes in market share, and the effects on tobacco control efforts. METHODS With the use of key word "Taiwan", the Legacy Tobacco Documents Library of the University of California, San Francisco, was searched for internal documents related to smuggling activities, promotion of light ciga...

Abstract This article examines people smuggling in the Kurdish borders between Turkey and Iran, describes how members of local border communities use their roles as kaçakç? (smuggler Turkish) to navigate externalised EU controls amid internal displacement poverty. It draws upon ethnographic data collection 2020 2022 Turkey-Iran that has not been considered studies on EU-supported external count...

Human trafficking is one of the transnational crimes that a threat to global security which type crime coupled with illicit drug trafficking, maritime piracy, arms smuggling, money laundering, terrorism, international banking and cybercrimes. The forms in persons are divided based on purpose delivery, victim, form exploitation. Because massiveness this crime, United Nations formulated protocol ...