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DEA stages surprise NFL inspections
Updated: November 16, 2014, 5:59 PM ET
By John Barr | ESPN.com
WASHINGTON -- In an unprecedented step, agents from the federal Drug Enforcement Administration conducted surprise inspections Sunday, targeting the medical and training staffs of visiting NFL teams, in an effort to determine whether they violated federal drug laws governing the handling and distribution of prescription painkillers, "Outside the Lines" has learned.
A federal law enforcement official, with knowledge of the investigation, told "Outside the Lines" the inspections were motivated by allegations raised in a May 2014 federal lawsuit, filed on behalf of several prominent NFL players, who allege team physicians and trainers routinely gave them painkillers in an illegal manner to mask injuries and keep them on the field.
Painkiller MIsuse By Retired NFL Players
In January 2011, ESPN reported on the first-ever study of painkiller misuse by retired NFL players. That study, funded in part by ESPN and with a grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse, a division of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, was published in the peer-reviewed scientific journal Drug and Alcohol Dependence.
Among the key findings:
• Retired NFL players misuse opioid pain medications at a rate more than four times that of the general population.
• 52 percent of the retired players said they used prescription pain medication during their playing days.
• Of those who took the drugs while playing, 71 percent said they misused the drugs then, and 15 percent of the misusers acknowledged misusing the medications within the past 30 days.
-- John Barr
"DEA agents are currently interviewing NFL team doctors in several locations as part of an ongoing investigation into potential violations of the Controlled Substances Act," DEA spokesperson Rusty Payne said Sunday.
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The PHYSICAL BEATING taken by NFL Players is amazing. I know a former player and he feels lucky to be whole.
That they have pain and pain management problems is no surprise. Retired players use the hard stuff at 4x the rate of the general population? How could that possibly be a surprise?
I'll be the DAY after a hard game, the active players spend time simply getting bruises and kinks and strains worked on.
Too much is never enough
Amazing how Doonsbury picked this time to re-run their series of Uncle Duke spiking those Washington Epidermis' with meth-enhanced gatorade!!!
Meanwhile, no one in the Senate, Congress or the White House are ever randomly drug tested or inspected for drugs.
Nor are they tested for intelligence.
d
doesn't Congress HAVE an Intelligence Committee?
... just sayin'.
Actually, come to think of it, perhaps if the (for lack of a better word) thought leaders on both sides of the aisle took off on a little junket to... say... Colorado and spent a day, say, at Red Rocks with a jam band and SuperPAC-funded dope... perhaps they could come to a shared understanding... of... something...
all the best,
mrh
...I understand that those who have tripped out on psilocybin mushrooms in a controlled group setting are deeply and for the most part, positively affected for the remainder of their lives. I think we'd all benefit if the current executive branch were to host a mushroom party for the other two branches of govt. Attendance by all three branches mandatory.
I'd be hip to that, bro! But don't tell Michelle.
link below
all the best,
mrh
...soon, as marijuana becomes more legal and less threatening, we will see more research being done with psychedelic drugs.
It's about time.
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