Editorial: 'Deaths of despair': An American epidemic
"Deaths of despair" sound like something that would be found in miserable, wretched places - refugee camps, war-torn cities, famine-wracked villages in poverty-stricken countries. In fact, the term has emerged to describe a crisis in one of the most advanced societies on the planet - ours.
The United States is in the grip of two lethal epidemics: suicides and drug overdoses. The deaths
