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. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: De Gruyter 2022
In: Open theology
Year: 2022, Volume: 8, Issue: 1, Pages: 248-260
Further subjects:B Drugs
B Epidemic
B opioid crisis
B Massachusetts
B New England
B Public Religion
B American Religion
B Community
B Public health
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