While recounting his time as a drug dealer he said,. They all knew who I was. I enjoyed it. I liked being a drug dealer. But while he may have enjoyed it early on, he eventually came to regret what he'd done. After being arrested and sentenced to months in prison for running into another car while driving under the influence he said in what would turn out to be a eerily accurate statement,. I don't want to die doing drugs. I don't want to be that kid who was the son of the head coach of the Eagles, who was spoiled and on drugs and OD'd and just faded into oblivion.
While Garrett was in prison Andy Reid visited him every Thursday for almost two years. The warden had Reid's cell phone number and Reid even gave the prison a box of Eagles hats after Garrett was released. He was hopeful his oldest son would be able to overcome his addiction. In order to help him with his recovery Reid had Garrett working with the team as an assistant weight instructor.
In the time he was with the team several players grew to like the friendly and outgoing Garrett. Guard Evan Mathis said of him,. I spent plenty of time with him. He was a happy-go-lucky guy and always a joy to be around, always telling jokes and having fun. Really just brightened your day when you were around him.
Safety Colt Anderson who spent 8-months with Garrett rehabilitating a knee said, "He was one of us. He was like a teammate. Like many drug addicts Garrett wanted to change. He had been in and out of rehab multiple times and even though he was 6'4" tall his weight had dropped from pounds to only while he was living out of his car in Arizona. Many will say he got what he deserved, that when you play with fire sometimes you get burned. But things are never as black and white as they seem.
Maybe he was just a bored spoiled rich kid. Or maybe there are issues that we know nothing about and he was self-medicating.
Only he knew why he did what he did. And even if it was simply boredom or peer pressure that influenced his initial experimentation, how many of us haven't experimented a little in college? Even the last three Presidents of the United States have admitted to experimenting with drugs in college.
So why do some people become addicted? Who knows. Why are some people OCD and can't let things go while others are bi-polar? Note to readers: if you purchase something through one of our affiliate links we may earn a commission.
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Community Rules apply to all content you upload or otherwise submit to this site. Ad Choices. Fact-forward news for readers like you who want to know more. Subscribe today. Garrett Reid died Aug. AP File Photo. Asked how aggressively his office and Lehigh University's police department pursued the question, Morganelli said: "Lots of interviews were conducted by the police.
And I can't go into all of them, but all I can say is that we could not provide any evidence or substantiate that anybody in the Eagles organization was involved in this, or whether or not this was for his personal use. It was just undetermined. He acknowledged the quantity found could have been intended for distribution, "but what I'm saying is I have no evidence of that, that there was any distribution by Mr.
Reid, either here or anywhere else. In a statement, Andy Reid said he was "confident that my son's decisions did not affect our football team in any way. Northampton County Coroner Zachary Lysek said Monday that testing is under way to determine if Reid had steroids in his system at the time of his death.
It was Lysek who determined previously that Reid succumbed to an accidental overdose of heroin. After the coroner announced his findings in October, investigators focused on learning who had supplied him with the drug, combing through Reid's phone records to see who he was calling and texting before his death.
But Morganelli said that probe ran into a dead end. Reid obtained heroin here in the Lehigh Valley or brought it with him to training camp from elsewhere," Morganelli said, adding that Lehigh University police have closed the investigation.
He was sentenced to nearly two years in prison for a high-speed car crash that injured another driver. Police said Reid was high on heroin, and they found the drug and more than pills in his car. More recently, exercise and training had become his passion and he aspired to make it a career.
At the time of his death, he had been helping strength and conditioning coach Barry Rubin. But an autopsy revealed his body showed signs of chronic drug use. Reid's younger brother, Britt, has also struggled with drug use and was arrested on the same day as Garrett in after a road-rage incident. Police discovered weapons and drugs in Britt Reid's vehicle. He now works as a graduate assistant coach at Temple.
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