Amid overdose crisis, court will weigh physician intent in “pill mill” prosecutions and more under the Controlled Substances Act
SCOTUSBlog
FEBRUARY 28, 2022
The government, in turn, focuses on the structure of the CSA — the words denoting mens rea, “knowingly or intentionally,” come after the exception clause at issue and so, the government argues, do not apply to it. Medicine, they contend, is by nature iterative, and the science of pain medicine in particular continues to evolve. (As
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