Frank And Rebecca Summary

The two main characters in the video were Frank and Rebecca. Both told similar drug related stories and both never imagine becoming heroin addicts. Frank when in high school was a major jock. He began his loved for sports with boxing, then to martial arts, which turned to wrestling and eventually football. After breaking his back in football, his sports playing career ended forever. Due to this incident, he was prescribed oxycontin and Percocet; both containing the addictive substance, oxycodone. It was at this point where Frank began his addiction. Three months after his accident, Frank’s doctors began cutting back on the prescriptions. Frank now began to realize his dependence on the drugs and began to find the drug elsewhere; most commonly on the streets. Frank mentions how it was much easier to obtain drugs off the …show more content…
Her mother, Nancy even entered a support group called “Learn to Cope”. Here, Nancy not only learned how to cope with her daughter's addiction, but how to help as well. They learned the signs of an overdose, CPR, and how to administer Narcan. As far as the video showed, Nancy was Rebecca's only positive support system. I mean she had her boyfriend, but he only encouraged her addiction. Rebecca also mentions how most of the people she went to highschool with are not addicted to heroin or painkillers. This probably played into why she became addicted. As an officer mentioned, Painkillers has become a trend. Clearly, she was surrounded by this trend and wanted in. Rebecca warns her friends that are addicted to painkillers to kick the addiction while they're ahead. She knows how bad her addiction to heroin in and knows it could kill her, so she tries to help her friends. I feel, even though, Rebecca does have encouraging friends, she does have Nacy who is doing all that she can to help her daughter. If Rebecca ever returns home, then I feel she had a good chance as beating her