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Town Troubled by Image as Drug Rehabilitation Haven : Treatment: Officials say influx of black inner-city addicts is spoiling Williamsport's homey flavor.

August 9, 1992 | DAVID TREADWELL, TIMES STAFF WRITER

When Rudy White hit rock bottom after being strung out on heroin and cocaine for more than 15 years, his distraught family knew just what to do. They sent him through a week of detoxification, bought him some new clothes and handed him a one-way bus ticket to this small town in north-central Pennsylvania's bucolic Susquehanna Valley. But why Williamsport?

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Town Troubled by Image as Drug Rehabilitation Haven : Treatment: Officials say influx of black inner-city addicts is spoiling Williamsport's homey flavor.

August 9, 1992 | DAVID TREADWELL, TIMES STAFF WRITER

When Rudy White hit rock bottom after being strung out on heroin and cocaine for more than 15 years, his distraught family knew just what to do. They sent him through a week of detoxification, bought him some new clothes and handed him a one-way bus ticket to this small town in north-central Pennsylvania's bucolic Susquehanna Valley. But why Williamsport?

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