Once a standout basketball player who was named Gatorade New England Athlete of the Year, Chris Herren had a career that was affected by addiction.  Growing up in Fall River, Massachusetts, Herren accepted a scholarship to play at Boston College where he was later kicked off the basketball team for drug use.  Herren then transferred to Fresno State and moved onto a 2 season NBA career where again addiction afflicted him and played a role in his early retirement.  After a near death experience, Herren has been sober since 2008 and has become a philanthropist and influential motivational speaker.