Today’s explosive news about the DEA’s investigative interest in the NFL was brought on by the agency’s contention that casual prescribing practices created painkiller addicts. Players named in the lawsuit claimed “hundreds, if not thousands” of injections and pills from NFL doctors and trainers, including Percocet, Toradol, Novocaine, amphetamines, sleeping pills and muscle relaxers.The DEA also may be looking at physicians prescribing medications beyond recommended dosage or for significantly longer periods than necessary. An attorney for the players named in the lawsuit, Mel Owens, who played in the NFL from 1981 to 1989, said his clients were not warned of […]...
- 11/18/2014
- by April Neale
- Monsters and Critics
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