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Eric Scicchitano

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Covers:  Addiction and recovery, crime, education, business. I prefer issues impacting rural areas, especially the economically challenged.
I'm mostly on Twitter only for Sixers updates.
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Making amends on the edges of The Badlands

Making amends on the edges of The Badlands

Social ills that mark the symptoms of heroin and opioid addiction are hidden no better in the shade of the el…

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Sunbury man's struggles in wake of doctor's arrest highlight depth of opioid crisis

Sunbury man's struggles in wake of doctor's arrest highlight depth of opioid crisis

A burning, stabbing pain shoots through the neck of Scott Dietrich, and he's all out of pain pills. "Like a h…

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Valley trio among baseball's elite

Valley trio among baseball's elite

Long are the odds to become a professional baseball player. Longer still are the odds to be enshrined in the …

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Putting a face to recovery: New Columbia woman tells of addiction, sobriety

Putting a face to recovery: New Columbia woman tells of addiction, sobriety

Enough light shone through the empty cardboard box inside which Tricia Dauberman hid in wait to surprise her …

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Opioid addiction driving foster placements

Opioid addiction driving foster placements

It's no coincidence the rise in children ordered into foster care came amid the spike in the ongoing heroin a…

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Finding Foster Families: Officials struggle to meet demand

Finding Foster Families: Officials struggle to meet demand

Jerod Waller slides a backpack weighted with college texts from his shoulders, no doubt relieving the 19-year…

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Family struggles with overdose death

Family struggles with overdose death

Teresa Stoker gently pulls a sterling silver necklace from beneath the neck of her gray sweatshirt and holds …

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Sounds of jackhammer tell tale of search

Sounds of jackhammer tell tale of search

The staccato whack of a jackhammer sounded faint from inside the basement of a Front Street home Wednesday, w…

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Inspired by tragedy, teens fight to change gun culture

Inspired by tragedy, teens fight to change gun culture

Seventeen people went to a Florida high school last month and didn’t live to see the school day through. The …

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