{"id":348701,"date":"2011-03-30T00:54:23","date_gmt":"2011-03-30T00:54:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/03\/30\/jets-qb-ainge-admits-to-substance-abuse-ap\/"},"modified":"2011-03-30T00:54:23","modified_gmt":"2011-03-30T00:54:23","slug":"jets-qb-ainge-admits-to-substance-abuse-ap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/03\/30\/jets-qb-ainge-admits-to-substance-abuse-ap\/","title":{"rendered":"Jets QB Ainge admits to substance abuse (AP)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"49.850132625995\">\n<p>NEW YORK (AP)\u2014Jets backup quarterback <span><a href=\"http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nfl\/players\/8939\/\">Erik Ainge<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nfl\/players\/8939\/news\">(notes)<\/a><\/span> says he is recovering<br \/>\nfrom a lengthy battle with substance abuse that has derailed his NFL career.<\/p>\n<p>Ainge, 24, tells ESPNNewYork.com on Tuesday in a candid first-person account<br \/>\nthat he is also dealing with bipolar disorder.<\/p>\n<p>Ainge says he \u201cwas a really bad drug addict\u201d and \u201cwould\u2019ve made Charlie<br \/>\nSheen look like Miss Daisy.\u201d He adds that he overdosed \u201cseveral\u201d times and<br \/>\nabused prescription medications, cocaine, heroin, marijuana and alcohol.<\/p>\n<p>Ainge says he has been clean since entering rehabilitation last July, his<br \/>\nlongest stint of sobriety since he was 11. A fifth-round draft pick in 2008 out<br \/>\nof Tennessee, Ainge missed all of last season. His future with the Jets is<br \/>\nuncertain.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/2ce20c76i.gif\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Read the original:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/us.rd.yahoo.com\/sports\/rss\/nfl\/SIG=11nltbr4u\/*http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nfl\/news?slug=ap-jets-ainge\" title=\"Jets QB Ainge admits to substance abuse (AP)\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jets QB Ainge admits to substance abuse (AP)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> NEW YORK (AP)\u2014Jets backup quarterback Erik Ainge (notes) says he is recovering from a lengthy battle with substance abuse that has derailed his NFL career. Ainge, 24, tells ESPNNewYork.com on Tuesday in a candid first-person account that he is also dealing with bipolar disorder. Ainge says he \u201cwas a really bad drug addict\u201d and \u201cwould\u2019ve made Charlie Sheen look like Miss Daisy.\u201d He adds that he overdosed \u201cseveral\u201d times and abused prescription medications, cocaine, heroin, marijuana and alcohol<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-348701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Jets QB Ainge admits to substance abuse (AP) - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/03\/30\/jets-qb-ainge-admits-to-substance-abuse-ap\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Jets QB Ainge admits to substance abuse (AP) - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"NEW YORK (AP)\u2014Jets backup quarterback Erik Ainge (notes) says he is recovering from a lengthy battle with substance abuse that has derailed his NFL career. 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