Aaron Fike WAS on a Bad Road

Former NASCAR driver Aaron Fike understands where he was headed when he was arrested while using 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.

Fike was eighth in the standings in the Craftsman Truck Series when he was arrested in the Kings Island parking lot outside Cincinnati in July.

At this time, he is in an aggressive rehab program 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.

Though it may be very unlikely he will drive in NASCAR again, one may never know.  He sounds pretty sincere about his road to recovery and that may translate into a renewed focus on his journey.

For more details, check out the Sun Herald