Chris Herrin’s Journey from Basketball Star to Junkie to Mentor

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For a young man from Massachusetts who grew up dreaming about playing professional basketball, signing with the Boston Celtics would seem to be a dream come true. Instead, basketball legend Chris Herren saw his dream vanish due to a 14-year addiction to prescription pain pills, cocaine and heroin.

In the early 1990s, Herren was one of the most talented high school basketball players in the nation. His decision to attend Boston College University was covered by Sports Illustrated and other national magazines. Even before the college basketball season officially started, Herren failed a drug due to marijuana and cocaine use. In the first game of the season he suffered a broken wrist that benched him for the rest of the season. After failing two more drug tests, he was kicked off the team and expelled from the university.…

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