Angela McCarthy B.A., '18 M.A. Applied Behavioral Science

Master's Project: Informal Social Attachments and Desistance from Heroin

April 11, 2018

I graduated from Wright State University with a Bachelor of Arts in Criminal Justice the Fall of 2014. In the spring of 2016, I returned to Wright State to further my education and advance my career opportunities. The first year of my master program I had the opportunity to work as a graduate teaching assistant. By the second year of grad school, I managed to obtain a position with Wright State University as a Research Assistant through the Population & Public Health. My project was qualitative research on those who have chosen to desist from heroin. I wanted to see if their decision to quit