A nation dying in despair, and family breakdown is part of the problem

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For at least the past 100 years, American children could grow up believing they would live longer than their parents and grandparents. Rising standards of living, higher life expectancy: they both seemed implicit in the promise of America.

That was until the current upsurge of “Deaths of despair.”

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