Wednesday, January 9, 2013


Former NBA player issues a wake-up call at Hatboro-Horsham



By Mike Prince

Back on June 4, 2008, former basketball star Chris Herren overdosed on heroin, drove into a utility pole and was declared dead for 30 seconds by paramedics.  It was, for lack of a better term, his wake-up call.
It wasn’t the last time the former Massachusetts high school All-American and second-round NBA Draft pick used drugs, but it was the beginning of his road to rehabilitation.
Now, roughly 4½ years later, Herren, who is more than 1,600 days sober, continues to tell his story, hoping he can make a difference in people’s lives by helping them to avoid the same mistakes he made for 14 years of his life.

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