Nike Brand Manager's heroin-free life: God did it!

A jail sentence kept him away from heroin after many years of addiction. It was when he was locked up that Jordan Rogers found the freedom he was looking for.

His was a classic case of teenage curiosity gone bad. It was so bad that even other heroin addicts did not want to be with him.

Nowadays, Rogers is a brand manager for Nike and is part of Nike's  successful North America team. According to a statistics report for Nike, the North American region "generated the largest portion of the company's revenue that year, approximately 13.74 billion U.S. dollars."

He recently celebrated his 13^{th year of sobriety with a video that revealed his journey of overcoming drug addiction and experiencing freedom.}

"Heroin entered my life when I had just turned 15. A buddy of mine was snorting something and he came up, and he had this look ... It was just like contentment," Rogers recalled in the video. "He called it 'Chiva.' We snorted it right there off the hood of the car that night. It was one of the most amazing feelings I've ever felt," he added.

Before he reached his 25^{th birthday, Rogers was already an uncontrollable heroin addict. "I thought about death often," he shared, stating that there was a black hole in him that he needed to fill so he got high and went all out on drugs.}

His extreme addiction put him in and out of treatment centers. Rogers said he thought he was smarter than the people who were helping him out. Whenever he tried to kick the habit, he felt "torn" and said he felt like dying.

Rogers eventually received a court order and was sentenced to spend 13 years in a jail facility. In a purple room with addicts like himself, he suddenly realized that he did not belong with such company. Without drugs and alcohol in his system, Rogers said he knew he was in really bad shape.

It was then that he prayed to God for help and said "Whoever, You are, whatever You are... I need help."

A man who frequented the jail facility took Rogers under his care and shared with him the love of Christ. "Whether he knew it or not, and walked me into recovery, into freedom," Rogers shared.