A suspect is searched on April 19 2017 in Huntington West Virginia A needle was found on him Huntington the city in the northwest corner of West...
{"Image ImageDescription": "A suspect is searched on April 19, 2017 in Huntington, West Virginia. A needle was found on him.\nHuntington, the city in the northwest corner of West Virginia, bordering Kentucky, has been portrayed as the epicenter of the opioid crisis. On August 15, 2016, from 3:00 pm to 9:00 pm, 28 people in the city overdosed on heroin laced with fentanyl, a synthetic opioid far more powerful and dangerous than heroin. The economic incentives are powerful: one kilogram of fentanyl costs $5,000, which can make a million tablets sold at $20 each for a gain of $20 million. \"This epidemic doesn't discriminate,\" Huntington Mayor Steve Williams said. \"Our youngest overdose was 12 years old. The oldest was 77.\"\n / AFP PHOTO / Brendan Smialowski / TO GO WITH AFP STORY by Heather SCOTT, US-health-drugs-WestVirginia        (Photo credit should read BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images)"}