InjuredChoker
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Early in his book, “My Last Fight,” Darren McCarty quotes lyrics of a song by the country music duo Thompson Square, “This life would kill me, if I didn’t have you.”
Along with detailed, behind-the-scenes descriptions of the great events of four Stanley Cup seasons and building a successful career, from early morning skates as a boy through 15 NHL seasons, McCarty describes a rambunctious life that frequently courts disaster.
“It feel as if my life is a Quentin Tarantino movie,” McCarty wrote.
“It’s as if I’m one of Tarantino’s characters, waking in a deadbeat motel with his life turned inside-out and left trying to figure out how he got there.”
It is a book of considerable interest to fans. But people struggling with addiction may see it as as source of considerable affirmation.
He admits he continues to use beer and medical marijuana, the latter, he says, because he avoids narcotic medication for his chronic pain. He said he tested positive for marijuana more than 30 times in his career, eventually leading to mandatory treatment, while also using cocaine and ecstasy.
From The Detroit News: http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20131128/SPORTS0103/311280036#ixzz2lxHjVCsw
have to pick this up at some point.
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