I should've been more specific. I didn't mean it was an opioid but it is a widely used gameday painkiller. The rampant Toradol use is masking the exacerbation of current injuries and negating the realization of new injuries. So you're often creating longterm medical issues with these guys that lead them from taking gameday pills and injections like Toradol to abusing opioid based daily use painkillers that obviously are addictive.
I believe there have been several lawsuits over this already.
That would be true of any non-addictive pain reliever.
Then the only alternative is to not use a pain reliever at all? Or use something less effective like ibuprofen? Or play with pain? Or not play the player at all?
I’m just throwing out hypotheticals.
You bring up some valid points.
Now you’ve read my counter.
Guess what the only solution is?
Not play the player AT ALL when they have injuries, therefore you don’t excercebate the injury, therefore there is no further pain, and no need for further pain medication.
But if you play the player, you have to do something, so don’t play them.
Guess what happens then?
Accusations of the pussification of America and football.
You can’t have it both ways.
As far as opioids vs cannabinoids.
It’s just a false argument from a strictly scientific standpoint.
Opiates are scientifically proven extremely effective, but also potentially highly addictive, in treating pain. Whereas cannabinoids have no well controlled clinical trials that show efficacy vs pain. The science isn’t there. I understand there’s a lot of anecdotal evidence, but that doesn’t count in science.
I’m not making a moral judgement about the legality of pot or whether people should use it, I’m a libertarian when it comes to that. If you get a placebo effect and think it stops your pain or it has some mild analgesic effect, more power to you.
But I worship at the church of science, and when I read a randomized peer reviewed double bind placebo controlled study that shows a statistically significant difference between the cannabinoid group vs the control group ... then that’s when I’ll know that it’s effective.
Otherwise, it’s just faith. Like believing in Krishna, or Zeus, or Xenu or whatever.
Bottom line: there are no easy answers but pot is not the answer either. It’s just not that effective from the data that’s out there in treating pain. And opiates are super addictive.
