Super Bowl champ Marvin Washington fights for cannabis in sports, calling it a safer alternative to opioids. Washington says the NFL must let athletes use cannabis for recovery, calling current ...

Less than 3% of all prescriptions involved opioids, the study found, and more than 90% of players never received an opioid for their pain.

When the great French educationist and historian Pierre de Coubertin revived the Olympics in 1896, the sports genius coined ...

Results Alcohol, cannabis, tobacco (nicotine) and prescribed opioids and stimulants are the most commonly used substances in elite athletes, but generally used at lower rates than in non-athletes. In ...

We like to think of addiction as something that happens somewhere else, to someone else. But addiction doesn’t discriminate. These are our sons and daughters, high school athletes prescribed opioids ...

"Moreover, only 10 percent of NFL athletes received even a single prescription for an opioid during a one-year period," noted study co-author Dr. Kurt Kroenke, a researcher-clinician at the ...

Many people, including pro football players, are first introduced to addictive opioid painkillers after an injury Recognizing the danger, the NFL began monitoring and curbing opioid prescriptions ...