Is it spiritual and/or economic despair or an increased availability of drugs that is at the root of the opioid epidemic? An argument could be made for either view. Here are two articles that analyze the root causes of the opioid epidemic in America, one from each perspective. Please read each article and then complete the prompt below.
Death maps show where despair is killing Americans
Supply, Not Despair, Caused the Opioid Epidemic
When you have read the two articles, write a paragraph in your Q2 Classroom Prompts Notebook taking a position on whether the cause of the opioid epidemic in America is the availability of drugs or the spiritual and economic desperation in America. You should quote from one of the articles in support of whichever position you take.