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Eugene Monroe Discusses Painkiller Use, NFL’s Drug Policy
- Updated: April 23, 2016
Baltimore Ravens offensive tackle Eugene Monroe aired his frustration with the NFL’s drug policy, including the league’s relationship to opioid substances, in a discussion on Twitter.
Monroe opened his discussion with this take on opioids:
To know that opioids are so addictive in nature frightens me to ever take them again
— Eugene Monroe (@MrEugeneMonroe) April 23, 2016
Backing up for just a moment, the NFL has a long history with opioids. John Barr of ESPN’s Outside the Lines published a story in which researchers interviewed 644 former NFL players who retired between 1979 and 2006.
According to Barr’s report, citing a study from the Drug and Alcohol Dependence scientific journal, NFL players “misuse opioid pain medications at a rate more than four times that of the general population, and new evidence suggests that is occurring because players misused the painkillers during their NFL careers.”
Among the key findings listed in the study, …
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