Methamphetamine poisoning due to body packer swallowing in a prisoner

Ramin Rouhani; Zakaria Zakariaei; Abdollah Malakian; Elham Sadat Banimostafavi; Mostafa Soleymani

doi:10.1002/ccr3.6358

Methamphetamine poisoning due to body packer swallowing in a prisoner

Clin Case Rep. 2022 Sep 14;10(9):e6358. doi: 10.1002/ccr3.6358. eCollection 2022 Sep.

Authors

Ramin Rouhani¹, Zakaria Zakariaei^{2

3}, Abdollah Malakian⁴, Elham Sadat Banimostafavi^{3

5}, Mostafa Soleymani³

Affiliations

¹ Department of Thoracic Surgery Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences Sari Iran.
² Toxicology and Forensic Medicine Division, Mazandaran Registry Center for Opioids Poisoning, Antimicrobial Resistance Research Center, Imam Khomeini Hospital Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences Sari Iran.
³ Iranian National Registry Center for Lophomoniasis and Toxoplasmosis Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences Sari Iran.
⁴ Department of Emergency Medicine, Faculty of Medicine Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences Sari Iran.
⁵ Department of Radiology, Imam Khomeini Hospital Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences Sari Iran.

Abstract

Individuals who introduce illicit substances such as opioids and amphetamines into the gastrointestinal tract by swallowing or inserting them into the rectum are known as body packers. We describe a prisoner who developed severe poisoning symptoms after swallowing amphetamine packets and was promptly removed by laparotomy.

Keywords: amphetamine; body packer; laparotomy; poisoning; prisoner.

Publication types

Case Reports