Opioid abuse and alcohol addiction are reaching epidemic levels in America. But working-class whites aren’t comfortably numb. They’re killing themselves with bottles, needles, and bullets leading to a statistical uptick in midlife mortality rates.
On the sterile spreadsheet of two Princeton economists, fatalities from alcohol, drugs and suicide get dumped under the tab labeled “deaths of despair.” And much of the blame belongs to social liberalism.
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