It’s not easy for Eugene DePasquale, the Democrat running for Pennsylvania attorney general, to pinpoint exactly when he knew he wanted to dedicate his life to public service, but he knows the decision was largely shaped by his father’s battle with addiction.
After being wounded by gunfire while fighting in Vietnam, DePasquale’s father spent decades fighting an addiction to painkillers. DePasquale said that battle led to his father being sentenced to 10-and-a-half years in prison for dealing drugs when DePasquale was in his early 20s. When his 20-year-old brother died of muscular dystrophy while DePasquale was in law school, his father had to attend the funeral in shackles.
Now DePasquale hopes to win his bid for attorney general in November’s election and support Pennsylvanians fighting addiction.
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