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Putting themselves at great personal risk (and often breaking the law to do so), the brave men and women profiled in \u003ci\u003eThis Is Ohio\u003c\/i\u003e are mounting a grassroots effort to combat ineffective and often incorrect ideas about addiction and instead focus on saving lives through commonsense harm reduction policies.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Opioids are the current face of addiction, but as Shuler shows, the crisis in our midst is one that has long been fostered by income inequality, the loss of manufacturing jobs across the Rust Belt, and lack of access to health care. What is playing out in Ohio today isn't only about opioids, but rather a decades-long economic and sociological shift in small towns all across the United States. It's also about a larger culture of stigma at the heart of how we talk about addiction. 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But in those thirteen turns lie a powerful symbol, one that is all too deeply connected to America's past,and present.The last man to be hanged in the United States was Billy Bailey, who was executed in Delaware in 1996 for committing a double murder. Even today, hanging is still legal, in certain situations, in New Hampshire and Washington. And the noose remains a potent cultural symbol. An incident in Jena, Louisiana, in 2006, in which nooses were used to menace black students, made national news. Yet little has changed: according to author Jack Shuler, there have been nearly 100  noose incidents\" just in the last two years. The Thirteenth Turn  unravels these stories, from Judas Iscariot, perhaps the most infamous hanged man, to the killing of Perry Smith and Richard Hickock, the murderers at the heart of Truman Capote's In Cold Blood, and beyond. In his travels across America, Shuler traces the evolution of this dark practice. As he investigates the death of John Brown, or the 1930 lynching that inspired the song  Strange Fruit,\" he finds that the very places that perpetrated these acts now seek to forget them.Shuler's account is a kind of shadow history of America: a reminder that vigilantes and hangmen play a crucial role in our national story. 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