Pain Management in NFL Spawns Culture of Prescription Drug Abuse

Published April 15, 2013

Pain management in NFL spawns culture of prescription drug abuse
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It's an issue the league has grappled with for many years: a culture of prescription drug use and misuse that stretches from the locker room into retirement, and even on to coaching staffs, with uneven oversight or uniform guidelines. Numerous … Read more on New Haven Register

Scott Mooneyham: Drug-abuse epidemics a century ago … and today
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Documents and reports from the 1910s and 1920s show that towns like Durham; Knoxville, Tenn.; and Shreveport, La., likely had hundreds of morphine addicts among their populations. The typical morphine addict was a white, … Since 2003, more people … Read more on Salisbury Post