In between lies a story that feels, at once, realistic in its rough and comic everyday unfolding and mythic in its riffs on the grand themes of despair ... "the anxious look of one married to ...

This “deaths-from-despair” mortality rate has not slowed since: in 2022 more than 200,000 people died from alcohol, drugs or suicide, equivalent to a Boeing 747 falling out of the sky every ...

Now a look at a demographic trend that is surprising ... specializing in substance abuse who has experienced deaths of despair time and again in her own family. Since at least the mid-1990s ...