WASHINGTON, D.C. — Huntington Mayor Steve Williams says he wants the Biden administration to know just how bad the opioid crisis is in his city. Williams was in Washington, D.C. for the annual U.S. Conference of Mayors where he told CNN on Friday morning that’s one of the topics he wants to speak to President Joe Biden about. Williams said Huntington has seen a drastic spike in fentanyl use leading to hundreds of overdose deaths. The mayor said from 2019-2021, the city saw 379 overdose deaths with 349 of those as a result of fentanyl. The U.S. Conference of Mayors ran Tuesday through Friday and included mayors from cities with populations of 30,000 or more.

Source: CNN January 21, 2023 00:57 UTC