for five years j.j. didn't gamble at all and they were happy. but -- >> you know, i always worried that the gambling would come back up and financial situations would happen again. >> and then in 2004, j.j. had that that bad crash in his police car. >> when we got there very shortly thereafter, he had an actually, like, a hole in the top of his head. >> bob jones is a former st. petersburg police officer and j.j.'s good friend. >> his knees and feet and everything else got hung up around the steering wheel. then, from that point on, multiple back problems, multiple back surgeries. >> and that, said cara, is when -- >> he started drinking heavily, all day, every day. >> at home recovering? >> yes. >> depressed. >> depressed, yeah. >> he recovered eventually, she said, and took that job as an investigator at the medical examiners office. but he was in pain most of the time. >> he kept drinking. and that's when he started using the oxycodone for the