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Alema Harrington finds strength and his mission in helping other addicts

Alema Harrington finds strength and his mission in helping other addicts

(Kristin Murphy, Deseret News)


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For many people Alema Harrington was the former BYU football player, or the son of a legendary Hawaiian athlete/TV actor, or the genial KSL-TV weekend sports anchor or the host of sports talk radio or the elder's quorum president of his Mormon ward or a father and husband.

But he was/is one more thing they didn't know about: A drug addict.

He led a double life.

He fooled almost everyone.

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