Susanne MacGregor

1 month ago | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Susanne MacGregor |Karen Snyder Duke |Aileen O’Gorman

No! It is not time to retire the term ‘deaths of despair’ [1]. The concept is needed more than ever today in countries where drug-related deaths remain at high levels. It draws attention to the need for comprehensive public health and social policies to reverse the damaging upstream conditions, which form the context for these deaths. It may be that the idea has been misappropriated and is unhelpful in a clinical context.