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Body Packing and Body Stuffing
Body packing
Body packing often involves drugs with a high street value (primarily Opioid Use Disorder and Rehabilitation or The total amount of drug involved represents a supra-lethal dose. Rupture of one or more packets is a risk, resulting in abrupt toxicity and overdose. Specific symptoms depend on the drug, but intractable seizures, tachycardia, hypertension, and hyperthermia are common withcocaine. Coma and respiratory depression are common with heroin. Intestinal obstruction or rupture and peritonitis are also risks. 