Debi Evans

Medicine crime, or ‘medicrime’, is a crime which includes a wide range of illegal and illicit activities spanning many different communities and many environments, including the medical profession. The discussion of what medicrime actually is may well end up generating more questions.

Historically, there has always been much debate, press attention and legislation around street drug crime, the purchasing of illegal drugs online, and counterfeit medicines. However, in this article I hope to draw attention to a crime that has thus far remained in the shadows and that is open to interpretation.