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Former heavyweight boxer George Chuvalo lost three sons to heroin addiction. A recent article reports that the 70-year-old is now traveling around the world speaking with kids about the dangers of addiction; with hopes that many won’t start drugs in the first place and that those on drugs will get through drug rehab before it’s too late.

Chuvalo has been talking to kids about the dangers of drugs since 1996. He lost two sons to heroin overdoses: one in 1993 and the other 1996. A third son committed suicide in 1985, which was also related to his drug addiction. Chuvalo tries to educate young people on the dangers of heroin addiction because “he didn’t want his sons to die in vain.”

While Chuvalo can’t go back in time and save his sons, all of them would probably still be alive if they had completed a successful drug rehab program.