NASCAR driver Aaron Fike understands where he was headed when he was arrested while shooting up heroin in an amusement park parking lot this summer.
“After four months of intense rehabilitation, I know that if it were not for my arrest, I would be dead,” he said. “At one point during my addiction, I stopped breathing and nearly died. Sooner or later, my luck would have run out.” ESPN
Fike’s remarks came in a rehab plan he wrote for a Warren County judge. The judge accepted Fike’s proposal to avoid jail by going to schools and racetracks to deliver an anti-drug message. Fike may find it harder to persuade NASCAR to let him race again.
“One day, I was a NASCAR race car driver, with people asking me for my autograph, and the next day I was in handcuffs, lying on the floor of a jail cell, going through the absolute agony of heroin withdrawal,” Fike wrote in the proposal the judge accepted Nov. 6. CanadianPress
