Ex-NBA Player To Discuss Former Drug Addiction at Benedictine University
Former NBA player Chris Herren will speak at the university in August.
from Benedictine University Former Massachusetts high school basketball legend Chris Herren accomplished his dream of playing in the NBA first with the Denver Nuggets and later the Boston Celtics, but he nearly lost everything to a gripping drug addiction. Herren will share his story and address the dangers of drug use and addiction in a talk aimed at teenagers, young adults and parents on Monday, August 27 at the Dan and Ada Rice Center on the campus of Benedictine University. Herren chronicled his rise to professional basketball stardom and the drug culturesurrounding it in a 2011 memoir, “Basketball Junkie.” The book reveals how his drug addiction began while he was a student-athlete at Boston College and later at Fresno State, where …
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