Chris Farley’s fame has lasted a generation, much of which Tom Farley has spent trying to help others while dealing with his own issues of sobriety and resulting recovery.
Marty Cook, at left, a recovery specialist for Niles Family Services' Engage program, and Darren Brown, right, director of Niles Family Services, flank Tom Farley, center, who spoke in Niles Sept. 8 about his brother, comic actor Chris Farley, who struggled with addiction and died of an overdose at 33. Tom Farley stressed the need for substance abuse and addiction treatment. i
Actor Chris Farley is shown in this undated photo made available by NBC. The Saturday Nigh Live funnyman died from a drug overdose in 1997 at the age of 33. The younger Farley reached even higher into Hollywood before he crashed and burned, with his brother John Farley finding him dead, at just age 33, in his 60th-floor condo at the John Hancock Center on Dec. 18, 1997. An autopsy determined he died of an overdose of cocaine and morphine.
Starting as the Chris Farley Foundation director shortly after his brother’s death, Tom Farley recently began working for the Rockford-based Engage developed out of Niles’ dual actions of approving video gaming and allowing a marijuana dispensary, said Darren Brown, the director of Niles Family Services, under whose auspices Engage operates. He said 25% of revenue from gaming operations is earmarked to fund his department’s addiction services.
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