An ABC News investigation has revealed that a controversial painkiller typically used on patients who recently underwent surgery is often injected into football players before games, making them feel invincible but putting them at risk.
That drug, Toradol, is used at several big-name college football programs across the nation, with many more campuses refusing to disclose to ABC News whether they inject players with the painkiller.
ABC News reports:
The top two college football programs, Notre Dame and Alabama, refused to answer questions from ABC News about the painkiller. They play for the national college championship on Jan. 7.
Controversy surrounding the drug has grown this year following claims by former USC lineman Armond Armstead that he suffered a heart attack after the 2010 season, at age 20, following shots of generic Toradol administered over the course of the season by the team doctor and USC personnel. …
In a lawsuit against the school and the doctor … Armstead claims the school ignored the stated risks of the drug and never told him about them.
“He was a race horse, a prize race horse that needed to be on that field no matter what,” said Armstead’s mother Christa. “Whether that was a risk to him or not.”
Armstead says he and many other USC players would receive injections of what was known only as “the shot” in a specific training room before big games and again at half-time. …
Armstead said the shot made him feel “super human” despite severe ankle, and later shoulder pain, and that without it, he never could have played in big USC games against Notre Dame and UCLA.
“You can’t feel any pain, you just feel amazing,” the former star player said.
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