PHILADELPHIA — On the day Donnie Hart nearly died, he crawled from the wreckage of a single-car accident and inched along for hours with a broken jaw and shattered leg to get help.
“He doesn’t have the word “quit” in his vocabulary,” Hart’s football coach said after the crash in 2005.
In many ways, that wreckage haunted Hart for years to come. An opioid prescription for the pain devolved into an addiction and when his beloved brother, Jimmy, died unexpectedly in 2014, the former semipro wrestler known as “Reckless” Donnie Hart turned to crime — robbing pharmacies — for even more pills.
