Guitarist’s family blames doctor

The family of a longtime guitarist for the rock group 3 Doors Down is accusing an Alabama doctor of fuelling the musician’s opioid addiction before he died of a drug overdose. Authorities say Matt Roberts, 38, was found dead in August 2016 in the hallway of a hotel outside Milwaukee, Wis., where he was to perform in a charity concert. In a lawsuit filed in Alabama, Roberts’ family says Dr. Richard Snellgrove began prescribing high levels of opioids to the musician in 2006 and continued doing so until days before he died, a decade later. Lawyers for Snellgrove and a representative of pharmacy company Rite Aid didn’t immediately return phone and email messages Thursday.