{"id":75917,"date":"2025-06-01T19:43:38","date_gmt":"2025-06-01T19:43:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=75917"},"modified":"2025-06-01T19:43:38","modified_gmt":"2025-06-01T19:43:38","slug":"why-so-many-young-brits-are-being-manipulated-into-smuggling-drugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2025\/06\/01\/why-so-many-young-brits-are-being-manipulated-into-smuggling-drugs\/","title":{"rendered":"Why so many young Brits are being \u2018manipulated\u2019 into smuggling drugs"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/SEI_253634656-44bd.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=646\" alt=\"Why so many young Brits are being 'manipulated' into smuggling drugs\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Awaiting an uncertain fate in a prison 2,000 miles from home,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2025\/05\/17\/everything-know-british-teen-bella-may-culley-faces-jail-georgia-23104617\/\" data-ico=\"hyperlink-article\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2025\/05\/17\/everything-know-british-teen-bella-may-culley-faces-jail-georgia-23104617\/\">Bella May Culley<\/a>\u00a0is far from the only young British traveller caught up in a murky web of organised\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/tag\/crime-news\/\" data-ico=\"hyperlink-article\" data-track=\"inline-tag-auto-link_article\">crime<\/a>.\u00a0 \u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2025\/06\/01\/many-young-brits-manipulated-smuggling-drugs-23269157\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Awaiting an uncertain fate in a prison 2,000 miles from home,\u00a0Bella May Culley\u00a0is far from the only young British traveller caught up&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":75615,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-75917","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Chyna-Jada-Browne-Frater.jpeg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75917"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75918,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75917\/revisions\/75918"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}