Addiction, the hardest battle
Presentation Type
Event
Full Name of Faculty Mentor
Wendy Weinhold
Other Mentors
Additional Mentor: Kyle Holody, Communication, Media, and Culture
Major
Communication
Minor
New Media and Digital Culture
Presentation Abstract
Sixteen days before my twenty-third birthday I had the shock of a lifetime, I called my father's phone.... only to have the other line answered by an unknown woman. The unknown woman on the other line was an investigator from the Philadelphia police department informing me that my father, who was only forty-five years old, had been found deceased in a motel room. I began hyperventilating, my whole body became hot and I can honestly say I have never felt so weak in my life. The horror of this news all came to its peak when I realized what had killed him, his addiction. For a large portion of my life my father had battled the hardest fight one could go through, his opponent was heroin. I have spent the past two years of my life educating anyone that would listen about the dangers of drugs, I plan to continue.
Location
Brittain Hall, Room 114
Start Date
17-4-2019 1:10 PM
End Date
17-4-2019 1:30 PM
Disciplines
Communication
Recommended Citation
Moffatt, Macy, "Addiction, the hardest battle" (2019). Undergraduate Research Competition. 43.
https://digitalcommons.coastal.edu/ugrc/2019/oral/43
Addiction, the hardest battle
Brittain Hall, Room 114
Sixteen days before my twenty-third birthday I had the shock of a lifetime, I called my father's phone.... only to have the other line answered by an unknown woman. The unknown woman on the other line was an investigator from the Philadelphia police department informing me that my father, who was only forty-five years old, had been found deceased in a motel room. I began hyperventilating, my whole body became hot and I can honestly say I have never felt so weak in my life. The horror of this news all came to its peak when I realized what had killed him, his addiction. For a large portion of my life my father had battled the hardest fight one could go through, his opponent was heroin. I have spent the past two years of my life educating anyone that would listen about the dangers of drugs, I plan to continue.