Authored by: Clarice Xu Art by: Allison He The government’s long campaign of selective incarceration told generations of people that addiction was their fault because they supposedly lacked the gumption to “just say no.” Yet, none of this punitive messaging was true, because many people affected by the crisis were voiceless victims from the beginning of their lives. Pharmaceutical companies saw the Appalachia region as a gold mine. Many people work in dangerous labor, including coal mining,...