Defining Moments: A Suburban Father's Journey Into His Son's Oxy Addiction
by Bradley V. DeHaven
Price: $9.99 USD. 38310 words.
Published on October 30, 2011. Nonfiction.
The true story, Defining Moments: A Father’s Journey Into His Son’s Addiction, drives readers into an Oxy deal intended to save a young man’s life, walks them through the history of the father who would perpetrate it, climaxes with the disastrous immediate consequences, and ultimately, reveals the healing of an entire family.
Location: United States
Member Since: Oct. 30, 2011
Bradley V. DeHaven
Biography
Bradley V. DeHaven is a Financial Planner in Sacramento California. Brad is a husband and a father of two sons. Brad’s oldest son, Brandon, struggled with prescription drug addiction from his early teens to when he hit bottom at 22 years old. At his arrest for dealing the powerful prescription pain pill Oxycontin, known on the streets as Oxy -synthetic heroin, he was a 6’2” 130 pound junkie with a $1000 a day Oxy habit. Brad was willing to go to great lengths to keep his son out of prison. Defining Moments is the story about what molds us into who we are as parents and how we learn to father and protect our children.
Brad has become a public speaker and prescription drug addiction activist, working on many fronts to slow the path of this epidemic. He is also an advocate for locking up prescription meds, and Rx Drug Safe.
Brad has become a public speaker and prescription drug addiction activist, working on many fronts to slow the path of this epidemic. He is also an advocate for locking up prescription meds, and Rx Drug Safe.