ESPN: NFL Painkiller Study Finally Released
28 January 2011
We’ve written about the hypocrisy of the drug culture in the NFL over the past three years. On the one hand, you’ve got the Commish running around like Chicken Little enforcing the steroid bans while on the other hand, you have a large number of current and retired players surviving day-to-day on the “legal” painkillers that the NFL chooses to ignore. (Read our post The NFL Drug Culture – click HERE.) Last year, we posted a request from Washington University and ESPN for retired players to participate in an anonymous study on pain management and the use of painkillers. (Read the original request from February 2010 – click HERE.) We just heard back from John Barr this morning:
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ESPN is sponsoring an independent study on NFL retired players’ pain and pain management issues. This study will be conducted by Dr. Linda Cottler from Washington University in St. Louis through phone interviews. They’ve assured everyone that participants and personal details will be kept completely anonymous.