Opinion: Judicial overreach is an immediate hazard to already precarious public health
It is reckless for courts to make decisions that disregard decades of clinical evidence on drug safety and effectiveness.
The United States is in poor health. Life expectancy rates have dropped precipitously, and racial health disparities continue, with white adults living more than five and a half years longer than Black adults on average. Child and teen mortality rates have also climbed, particularly among youth of color. Our maternal mortality rate is three times higher than those of other developed countries and is especially elevated for Black women.
As people who work in public health, we are alarmed by these trends and have joined our colleagues in promoting tools that can help reverse the backsliding — namely, interventions based on research and evidence.
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