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County Lines and the Children They Exploit
Criminal gangs are targeting children and recruiting them as drug mules.
The National Crime Agency says they are seeing increases in the "scale and scope of the threat" from county lines.
County lines is where urban drug gangs expand their markets for crack cocaine and heroin into smaller towns.
The 大象传媒's special correspondent Ed Thomas spoke to addicts, police officers and those trying to care for the children exploited by the drugs gangs.
