FYI: How Much Cocaine Can You Fit In Your, Ahem, Body?
Drugs In Machinery via UK Home OfficeThe science of drug muling The first thing you learn, when investigating drug muling, is that muling is a very common and efficient way of transporting contraband. The second thing you learn is that you have no idea how elastic the gastrointestinal tract is. There are two kinds of mules. The first is long-term; these are the ones that fly from another country and need to keep whatever they're smuggling inside their bodies for a day or so. Dr. Rama Rao, an emergency room physician at New York Presbyterian Hospital, calls this "body packing," though terms vary. The other type is short-term, the ones who need to smuggle something into jail or just to conceal something for a few minutes or hours. Dr. Rao calls this "stuffing" or "booty bumping," though as with packing, there are dozens of slang terms for it. Whatever it's...