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Charles White, formerly a running back with the Rams and USC, discussed his cocaine use at a California Commission on Drugs hearing in Los Angeles.
White said he was finally clean for the past nine months after years of nearly daily cocaine use.
“I thought I was going to die; it got that bad one time,” White testified. “I asked myself, ‘When are you going to give in? When you’ve got a tag around your toe in the morgue?’ ”
White, who has been working with other addicts at a Long Beach hospital, said it would be helpful for professional teams to have a recovered addict on staff to council players.
The commission is gathering material for a report to state lawmakers.
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