{"id":242586,"date":"2026-07-13T21:37:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T21:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/242586\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T21:37:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T21:37:09","slug":"scranton-fathers-mission-to-fight-fentanyl-epidemic-after-marine-sons-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/242586\/","title":{"rendered":"Scranton father’s mission to fight fentanyl epidemic after marine son’s death"},"content":{"rendered":"

A father’s mission to raise awareness after losing his son to fentanyl has united families at the Lackawanna County Walk for Lives.<\/p>\n

SCRANTON, Pa. \u2014 A family’s heartbreak turned into a mission to raise awareness.<\/p>\n

The Lackawanna County Walk for Lives event was held Saturday in Scranton<\/a> to support those who have been impacted by fentanyl and other deadly substances.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The event was organized by Mike Mancini, the father of Christian Reed, a u-s marine who tragically lost his life to fentanyl at 26 years old, just 1 day after his birthday.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Now, Mancini is raising awareness by standing with other families who know the pain all too well.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“You’re not alone. There’s a lot of people just like you. One is too many. We lose 20 children a day nationally to this epidemic. Bringing awareness and education, and prevention to this is very important to me because this is what my son would want.”<\/p>\n

Organizers say another goal of the Lackawanna County Walk for Life is to encourage stronger action against the spread of deadly substances in local communities.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A father’s mission to raise awareness after losing his son to fentanyl has united families at the Lackawanna…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":242587,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-242586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242586\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}