dc.description.abstract | The United States is currently facing a national crisis due to an epidemic of opioid addiction, overdose and death. This epidemic is killing more people than car accidents and is plaguing over 2 million citizens. After hearing the national conversation surrounding the topic, learning about opioid addiction in classes for my sociology minor, and witnessing the tribulations of the opioid epidemic in my Oklahoma hometown, I was interested in analyzing how this epidemic has affected my local community of Tarrant County, Texas. As a student of the journalism department, researching this topic for my departmental honors project provided an opportunity to use the reporting skills I have learned over the past four years. Rather than writing a paper in accordance with a traditional thesis model, my project is a multimedia piece comprised of written portions, video, interactive graphics and sidebars of relevant information. The official article has been published on https://www.tcu360.com/2019/04/the-road-to-opioid-abuse-prescription-drugs/. | |