Health & Fitness
Branford Heroin Addict Discusses Fight to Stay Clean
RJ Sember graduated from Branford High School where he played football and ran track.
BRANFORD, CT - For RJ Sember, 22, the struggle to kick his heroin addiction is a constant fight.
“Each time you can feel it, little by little, just suck the life out of you, to the point where I’m like I am now," he told WTNH-TV. "I mean, I’m sick. I don’t feel well. I’m about two days in withdrawal.”
Sember tells his story in a feature on WTNH, one of a good student, and football and track athlete at Branford High School, to a drug addict who has been in and out of rehab nearly a half-dozen times.
He has also been hospitalized following an overdose, and he hopes that by sharing his story he can help other addicts, or keep kids from trying drugs in the first place.
“I just wanted to be able to live a normal life and if you’re using heroin that’s completely out of the picture,” Sember said.
Click here to read the full story on the WTNH-TV website.
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