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Trump is on his way to an epicenter of the opioid crisis. Here’s what he’ll find

President Trump will be holding a rally in Huntington, W.Va., which has struggled for years with the consequences of an opioid epidemic.
A memorial in Huntington, W.Va.

President Trump will be in Huntington, W.Va., on Thursday evening for the latest in a series of rallies he’s held around the country since he took office.

STAT will be watching to see if he addresses the opioid crisis. It’s not clear whether Trump will say anything about the addiction epidemic, but he will be speaking in a city that’s become a symbol for the danger posed by synthetic opioids like fentanyl, and in a state that has the highest rate of drug overdose deaths in the country.

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