“If I could wave a magic wand, I’d want everybody to get educated about addiction,” said Angie Gray, the Martinsburg public-health nurse—a sentiment that consistently rose to the top among the experts I talk to. “In Appalachia, it used to be we’d mow each other’s grass, take food to people who were needy. But because of this opioid crisis, we’ve started to turn on each other, and we’re trying to find someone to blame, when the blame is much higher above us.”
