jason ruggeri started taking painkillers after injuring his knee during college football practice. kenneth: did your doctor warn you about how powerful they can be? ruggeri: no. pain pills led to heroin, which led to an accidental overdose. :51-:56 jason ruggeri/recovering heroin addict sot: it also left me completely homeless and on the streetboth former athletes found treatment at st. christopher s inn, which runs one of new york s most successful rehab programs. director david gerber says about a quarter of the shelter )s residents are athletes. 1:10- 1:19 sot/ david gerber/ director of counseling and shelter services, st. christopher s inn these medications mask the pain but do nothing to treat the injury. so it oftentimes worsens the injury making the need for more medications and they become addicted narr-5 robert s brother was an addict too. kenneth: were you trying to get him help? robert: actually - he was trying to help me. and he did he got me to get into recovery in the first place just weeks ago, his brother died of a heroin overdose. robert says that )s now his inspir