Former NBA star Chris Herren will share his story from rising to stardom in the NBA to his near death to drug addiction in a presentation titled, “Project Purple; The Herren Project.” This presentation will take place on Thursday, April 24th at the Mount Olive High School Performing Arts Center at 7pm. Herron played in the NBA from 1999-2001 for the Denver Nuggets and Boston Celtics. While with the Celtics, Herren started using prescription painkillers and in 2004 was charged with possession of heroin. After a near fatal car crash due to a heroin overdoes, Herren completed an intensive rehabilitation program and has been clean and sober since August 2008. For more information on this event, please visit www.safehealthymorris.org.

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