Re: ‘Access to treatment with controlled medicines: rationale and recommendations for neutral, precise, and respectful language’

Willem Scholten et  al. are to be applauded for continuing the discussion about how we talk about drugs and drug use in law, policy, practice and in society (‘Access to treatment with controlled medicines: rationale and recommendations for neutral, precise, and respectful language’, Public Health, vol 153).1 It’ s a much needed discussion. However, while welcoming the project overall, I question the authors' rejection of ‘criminal law’ to describe drug laws. To support their argument, the authors state that:“…criminal law… has as the objective to regulate prosecution of crimes (e.g.
Source: Public Health - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Tags: Letter to the Editor Source Type: research