A Hard Pill to Swallow: Social Capital, Opiates, and Health Outcomes in the American States

• In Event: Health Politics

Brief Overview

In this paper, we extend the debate on social capital to the prescription drug epidemic in the United States and explore how social capital buffers the negative implications of the opiate crisis using state-level data.

Authors

• Austin Michael McCrea, American University

• Daniel P. Hawes, Kent State University at Kent