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Published on: May 31, 2019
The opioid crisis and the infrastructure of social capital
1Department of Sociology, Suffolk University, 73 Tremont Street, Boston, MA, 02108, United States.
Abstract:
This paper reflects upon ethnographic work carried out in a suburban Massachusetts town that has experienced particularly high rates of opioid mis/use. In open-ended conversations, residents attributed the local opioid crisis to institutional betrayals of various sorts. Building upon the idea that social capital tends to be health-enhancing, this paper traces the decline in the infrastructure of social capital and the associated decline in cultural capital or scripts for making sense out of life's challenges.
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