Contesting Deaths’ Despair: Local Public Religion, Radical Welcome and Community Health in the Overdose Crisis, Massachusetts, USA

In the United States, the first decades of the twenty-first century have been marked by a worsening fatal drug overdose epidemic leading life expectancy to decline for the first time in a century. Often termed deaths of despair, this development is attributed to declines in civic life, including les...

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Main Author: Campbell Emily B.
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: De Gruyter 2022-05-01
Series:Open Theology
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1515/opth-2022-0206