Blog Posts > Dope, Dollars and Despair: Two Men Vying to be West Virginia’s Governor Traveled Very Different Roads in the Overdose Crisis
October 23, 2024

Dope, Dollars and Despair: Two Men Vying to be West Virginia’s Governor Traveled Very Different Roads in the Overdose Crisis

Mountain State Spotlight – During a national taskforce meeting about opioids in August 2016, an aide whispered into Huntington Mayor Steve Williams’ ear. 

The top federal drug control official wanted to meet privately with Williams. 

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Just five days earlier, 27 people had overdosed in the span of four hours in Huntington. Twenty-six were brought back to life. Another died. Fentanyl, a powerful opioid deadlier than heroin, had come to town. 

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