Alcohol Addiction

Maurice Purify: From Alcoholism to Mentor

AUDIO – THE REAL TOUCHDOWN –

Sept. 23, 2022 – “As long as I’m using it, I’m still going to have it,” Purify says with a laugh. “Once you stop using it you lose it.”

He’s known as Coach Mo these days, in his first season as receivers coach at College of the Redwoods in his hometown of Eureka, California, on the edge of the Pacific Ocean 100 miles south of the Oregon border. He spent the previous four years back at his old high school helping with football and basketball when he wasn’t working as a juvenile hall correctional officer.

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