Britain's Child Drug Runners
With extraordinary access, we follow children as young as seven trapped in the dangerous world of drug running all over the U.K., exploring how they got into it and why they can't get out. While the drug gangs profit, many parents feel powerless as their children risk their lives carrying crack cocaine and heroin, and staying in so-called ‘trap houses' for weeks at a time.
With extraordinary access, we follow children as young as seven trapped in the dangerous world of drug running all over the U.K., exploring how they got into it and why they can't get out. While the drug gangs profit, many parents feel powerless as their children risk their lives carrying crack cocaine and heroin, and staying in so-called ‘trap houses' for weeks at a time.
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