Grammy nominee, born Jason DeFord, who experieneed addiction before music career, says fentanyl \u2018killing the people we love\u2019<\/p>\n
Saying he was \u201conce part of the problem\u201d but now \u201cwants to be a part of the solution\u201d, the country singer Jelly Roll<\/a> \u2013 who overcame drug addiction and imprisonment to achieve stardom \u2013 appeared before US lawmakers and urged them to pass an anti-fentanyl law.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019ve attended more funerals than I care to share with y\u2019all,\u201d the musician who was born Jason DeFord recently told<\/a> the Senate banking, housing and urban affairs committee. \u201cI could sit here and cry for days about the caskets I\u2019ve carried of people I love dearly, deeply in my soul. Good people, not just drug addicts. Uncles, friends, cousins, normal people.\u201d<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Grammy nominee, born Jason DeFord, who experieneed addiction before music career, says fentanyl \u2018killing the people we love\u2019 Saying he was \u201conce part of the problem\u201d but now \u201cwants to be a part of the solution\u201d, the country singer Jelly Roll \u2013 who overcame drug addiction and imprisonment to achieve stardom \u2013 appeared before US … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1322\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}