According to the Madden NFL 18 Coins filings, the average NFL team prescribed 5,777 doses of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs — NSAIDs — and 2,213 doses of controlled medications, which would include opioids, in 2012. The Post estimated that those numbers could average out to “six to seven pain pills or injections a week per player over the course of a typical NFL season.”
The extent of Cheap Madden Mobile Coins prescription drug use in the NFL may be even greater than reported if teams logs were improperly maintained as the lawsuit alleges. Teams may have gone to other lengths to conceal their activities, too. The lawsuit claims that NFL teams were tipped off in 2014 to a DEA raid that turned up no controlled substances. The implications of the Post’s report is that NFL team doctors appear to have been participants in a cover up.
Not only did they administer prescription drugs outside of their indications, the lawsuit alleges, but they kept NFL players in the dark.Bud Carpenter, the Buffalo Bills’ longtime trainer, “admitted under oath that he witnessed team doctors give players injections of prescription medications without telling them what the drug was they were receiving or its side effects.
Of particular focus is Toradol, the powerful NSAID that became the NFL’s drug of choice over the course of two decades. The story mentions Dr. Matthew Matava, who was the St. Louis Rams’ team doctor before they relocated to Los Angeles. He led a 2012 task force on Toradol that remended that teams curb its usage, though the task force did not lead to NFL regulation.
Last year, Matava spoke with at maddenvip SB Nation and reiterated that team doctors were free to exercise their own discretion. In emails unearthed from the court filings, however, Matava was much more critical of his colleagues.