Re: Letter to the editor of public health in response to ‘Access to treatment with controlled medicines rationale and recommendations for neutral, respectful, and precise language’

We thank Mr Barret for his comments. As a scholar in law sciences, he is much better equipped for describing legal theory than we are, being trained in medical, pharmaceutical and public administration sciences. Indeed, without further discussing that some crimes may be universally rooted in cultures and societies or may be ‘natural law’, we agree with Mr Barrett that controlled substances law regulates crimes which are certainly not such crimes ‘malum in se’ and thus, they must be crimes ‘malum prohibitum’.
Source: Public Health - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Tags: Authors' response Source Type: research