Former NBA player recounts struggle with drug addiction – CNN.com. Chris Herren, a basketball legend from Fall River, Massachusetts, realized his dreams by playing for the Celtics in the NBA, only to lose it all to addiction before rising again with a new dream. Chris wrote Basket Ball Junkie which is his memoir of his struggle with heroin and other drugs. You can read an excerpt here. The reminds me of a piece we did a while ago call the Fighter and also of the great Texas Ranger’s baseball slugger, Josh Hamiliton. The message here, is that addiction impacts more than skid row junkies and miraculous comebacks happen everyday. Recovery is more that a possibility. Link by Bill
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March 16, 2013 at 5:39 am
Ryan
Chris,
I am sitting in my hotel room and your story was just on ESPN. I was an all american wrestler for Penn State. I started a multi million dollar company at 26 and lost it all yesterday. I was fired from the company I own, kicked out of my house. All because I am an alcoholic. I was told in an AA meeting this morning, that I did not lose it, I gave it away. That was hard to digest. But I knew right away it was true. I have been an alcoholic for 7 years. I don’t know where to go from here. I am very alone, but I want help.
Ryan