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Melania Trump in West Virginia for Opioid Talk

Associated Press

   HUNTINGTON, WEST VIRGINIA - First lady Melania Trump is visiting West
   Virginia to learn how a city at the center of the nation's opioid
   epidemic is grappling with the crisis.

   Trump on Monday participated in a roundtable discussion on opioids with
   federal, state and local officials in Huntington, West Virginia.
   Federal statistics show West Virginia has the highest opioid overdose
   rate in the U.S.

   During the roughly hour-long meeting, Trump heard about how police,
   schools and health care centers in the area are fighting the opioid
   scourge. Huntington Mayor Steve Williams said it's a grim task, and
   added that his city would still have to deal with the epidemic for at
   least the next 40 years even if all heroin sales were to abruptly stop.

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