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A city wrestled down an addiction crisis. Then came COVID-19

by Claire Galofaro
| April 9, 2021 12:03 AM

HUNTINGTON, W. Va. (AP) — Larrecsa Cox steered past the used tire shop, where a young man had collapsed a few days before, the syringe he’d used to shoot heroin still clenched in his fist.

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