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Huntington Mayor Steve Williams (left) leaves the courthouse with City Communications Director Bryan Chambers and attorney Rusty Webb. | Photo by Brittany Hively CHARLESTON – Wrapping up the plaintiff s case, Huntington Mayor Steve Williams provided emotional testimony detailing his experience in handling the opioid epidemic. “We had individuals saying we were the epicenter of the opioid epidemic and that smacked me in the center,” Williams said during his sometimes tearful June 30 examination by attorney Anne Kearse. “The hardest part of this is dealing with the family members who have lost someone to this and are lost.   In 2017, Cabell County and the City of Huntington sued the three largest pharmaceutical distribution companies – AmerisourceBergen, Cardinal Health and McKesson Corp. – claiming the companies were largely responsible for the opioid crisis after the companies shipped more than 81 million hydrocodone and oxycodone pills to the

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