PHILANTHROPY DAILY

Higher education fosters what Wendell Berry has termed “boomers”: individuals who “are always on the lookout for better career opportunities in better places.” He contrasts this group to “stickers”: those who root themselves in a place, and dedicate themselves to its wellbeing.

The opioid crisis is the story of many kinds of pain. What tends to dominate that story is an awful paradox: well-meaning efforts to kill pain began to kill people instead. But while the death toll is unquestionably horrifying, this crisis extends well beyond addiction.