Were all those people held down and injected against their will?
Fine. Maybe they were not physically forced. But they were denied access to employment, education, services, socially shunned and had mental damage that lead to even more deaths thanks to opioid and alcohol overdoses.
Fine. Maybe they were not physically forced. But they were denied access to employment, education, services, socially shunned and had mental damage that lead to even more deaths thanks to opioid and alcohol overdoses.
"Some common synonyms of coerce are compel, constrain, force, and oblige."
It literally doesn't matter what word you use. They're the same things.