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Laura Starecheski

Senior Radio Editor

Laura Starecheski is a former senior radio editor for Reveal. Their radio work at Reveal has won a national Edward R. Murrow, a duPont-Columbia, and a Peabody, among other awards. Previously, they reported on health for NPR’s science desk and traveled the United States with host Al Letson for the Peabody Award-winning show “State of the Re:Union.” Their Radiolab story “Goat on a Cow” won a silver award for best documentary from the Third Coast/Richard H. Driehaus Foundation, and SOTRU's “The Hospital Always Wins” won a national Murrow Award. They have been a Rosalynn Carter fellow for mental health journalism and a Knight-Wallace fellow at the University of Michigan. Starecheski is based in Philadelphia.

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Posted inAmerican Rehab

American Rehab Chapter 5: Reagan with the Snap

by Laura Starecheski, Shoshana Walter, Ike Sriskandarajah, Brett Myers, Kevin Sullivan, Fernando Arruda, Jim Briggs, Katharine Mieszkowski, Amy Mostafa, Najib Aminy, Al Letson, Mwende Hinojosa and Claire Mullen

Cenikor rises from the ashes, thanks to an inventor of NFL football pads, the war on drugs and the endorsement of an American president.

https://d1m3w2qdkx2ozg.cloudfront.net/630_Reveal_PC.mp3

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Posted inAmerican Rehab

American Rehab Chapter 2: Miracle on the Beach

by Shoshana Walter, Laura Starecheski, Ike Sriskandarajah, Brett Myers, Kevin Sullivan, Jim Briggs, Fernando Arruda, Al Letson, Amy Julia Harris, Katharine Mieszkowski, Najib Aminy, Amy Mostafa, Matt Thompson, Esther Kaplan, Amanda Pike and Claire Mullen

Reveal’s American Rehab exposes how a treatment for drug addiction has turned tens of thousands of people into an unpaid shadow workforce.

https://d1m3w2qdkx2ozg.cloudfront.net/American%20Rehab%20chapter2.mp3
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American Rehab Chapter 1: A Desperate Call

by Shoshana Walter, Laura Starecheski, Ike Sriskandarajah, Brett Myers, Jim Briggs, Fernando Arruda, Katharine Mieszkowski, Amy Julia Harris, Al Letson, Kevin Sullivan, Esther Kaplan, Amanda Pike, Narda Zacchino, Najib Aminy and Amy Mostafa

Penny Rawlings is relieved to finally get her brother into rehab at a place called Cenikor. She doesn’t realize that getting him out of treatment is going to be the bigger problem.

https://d1m3w2qdkx2ozg.cloudfront.net/AR%20Chapter%201_nobreaks%20promo%20only.mp3