Topic: Painkiller Use in Football - BBC (including Daniel Agger & Dominic Matteo)

[Anthony]

Article on the BBC about painkiller use by Football. Rather worryingly it includes case studies on Daniel Agger who says he had an overdose at Brondby, and Dominic Matteo who says he had regular injections at Liverpool

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/39333763


Elite footballers' "abuse" of legal painkillers risks their health and could "potentially" have life-threatening implications, says Fifa's former chief medical officer.

[BarryCrocker]

NFL has a similar problem according to the Washington Post.

"As an example contained in the court documents, the average NFL team in 2012 prescribed nearly 5,777 doses of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and 2,213 doses of controlled medications, such as Vicodin and Toradol, to its players, according to a March 2013 internal document from the league-employed medical adviser who oversees the NFL's drug issues.

That would be an average of about six to seven pain pills or injections per week per player over a typical NFL season, what one medical expert told the Post represented "an incredible amount of intervention with some pretty risky drugs."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/redskins/nfl-abuse-of-painkillers-and-other-drugs-described-in-court-filings/2017/03/09/be1a71d8-035a-11e7-ad5b-d22680e18d10_story.html?utm_term=.6b475545b580

[DonkeyWan]

How many times have you watched a game and seen a player limp off at half time only to spryly sprint back onto the  pitch 15 minutes later and proceed to run around like he had three legs? I think we always suspected players were getting painkilling injections before, during and after a game, we were just happy to ignore it as long as the players kept going. This and concussions are the two biggest issues the sport is reluctant to engage with.