{"id":57044,"date":"2017-01-13T21:02:10","date_gmt":"2017-01-13T21:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/story_of_a_pittsburgh_area_cop_who_moved_from_pain_killer_addiction_to_hero\/"},"modified":"2017-01-13T21:02:10","modified_gmt":"2017-01-13T21:02:10","slug":"story_of_a_pittsburgh_area_cop_who_moved_from_pain_killer_addiction_to_hero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=57044","title":{"rendered":"Story of a Pittsburgh area cop who moved from pain killer addiction to Heroin: &#39;American tragedy&#39;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>James B. Johnson V\u2019s arrest exemplifies what his attorney says is a modern \u201cAmerican tragedy\u201d\u009d \u201d\u201d an injury leads to painkiller addiction which, in turn, leads to heroin use.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLocal kid gets injured, gets hooked on opioids and can\u2019t get off of them,\u201d\u009d attorney D. Scott Lautner said Thursday. \u201cThis clearly shows the drug epidemic problem in the United States right now, that it affects everybody of different ages, sexes, religions and occupations.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p>In this case, the addict is a police officer.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.post-gazette.com\/news\/overdosed\/2017\/01\/12\/Lawyer-Donora-cop-s-James-B-Johnson-V-heroin-use-is-American-tragedy\/stories\/201701120227\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James B. Johnson V\u2019s arrest exemplifies what his attorney says is a modern \u201cAmerican tragedy\u201d\u009d \u201d\u201d an injury leads to painkiller addiction which, in turn, leads to heroin use. \u201cLocal kid gets injured, gets hooked on opioids and can\u2019t get<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=57044\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,50,209,175,99,168,104,114,578,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-americau-s-a","category-anthropology","category-drugsdrug-addiction","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-health-medicine","category-law-legal-issues","category-policefire","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57044\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}