{"id":5681,"date":"2014-09-10T06:20:02","date_gmt":"2014-09-10T06:20:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/landauinjurylaw.com\/theathleteslawyer\/?p=5681"},"modified":"2014-09-15T02:13:18","modified_gmt":"2014-09-15T02:13:18","slug":"drug-enforcement-agency-investigating-nfl-painkiller-use","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/landauinjurylaw.com\/theathleteslawyer\/2014\/09\/10\/drug-enforcement-agency-investigating-nfl-painkiller-use\/","title":{"rendered":"Drug Enforcement Agency Investigating NFL Painkiller Use"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Long-term<\/a>
Shown here after running the Virginia Trial Lawyers race with his wife and daughter, Doug Landau is concerned with the long-term effects of strong pain medications<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

As a follow-up to the National Football League (NFL) lawsuit<\/a> in which former players accuse the league of using painkillers to mask athletes’ injuries so the players could “play through the pain”, the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) is now investigating who distributed and provided those drugs.\u00a0 (Read more in a Washington Post article.<\/a>)<\/p>\n

At Abrams Landau, Ltd.<\/a>, our business is helping injured people.\u00a0 We know from years of experience working with clients who suffer from both short-term and chronic pain that the use of pain medication is not without its problems.\u00a0 According to athletes’ lawyer Doug Landau,<\/p>\n

“Painkillers like Percodan, Vicodin, etc. can be addictive and there are risks associated with long term use.\u00a0 The symptoms we see, along with our injured clients’ medical histories, bear out the difficult balance between pain control and controlled substance abuse. Plus, once a long-term painkiller user builds up a tolerance to the efficacy of the medication, they need more and more pills. \u00a0This, in turn, puts an additional strain on the digestive system, liver and stomach lining.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In the case of a professional athlete, it is easy to imagine that pressure from team doctors —\u00a0 much like the pressure we see exerted by insurance company nurses who try to medically manage a disabled workers’ comp claim —\u00a0 would cause problems with patients’ physical AND mental health, not to mention the doctor-patient relationship.<\/p>\n

Those who distributed and\/or provided the drugs to NFL players without proper medical supervision should be held accountable for their actions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As a follow-up to the National Football League (NFL) lawsuit in which former players accuse the league of using painkillers to mask athletes’ injuries so the players could “play through the pain”, the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) is now investigating who distributed and provided those drugs.\u00a0 (Read more in a Washington Post article.) At Abrams…<\/p>\n

Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[5834,5833,5835,5831,1840,3189,3197,3710,3711,5832,5836,5830],"class_list":["post-5681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cases","tag-abrams-landau-injured-athletes","tag-addiction-to-painkillers","tag-athlete-managing-pain","tag-dea-investigating-suppliers-of-painkillers-to-nfl-players","tag-doug-landau","tag-lawsuit-against-nfl","tag-lawyer-for-injured-athletes","tag-nfl-players-sue-league-over-painkillers-and-hiding-injuries","tag-nfl-sued-by-retired-football-players","tag-painkillers-in-sports","tag-supplying-drugs-to-athletes","tag-who-supplied-drugs-to-nfl-players"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nDrug Enforcement Agency Investigating NFL Painkiller Use - Sports Injury Law<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/landauinjurylaw.com\/theathleteslawyer\/2014\/09\/10\/drug-enforcement-agency-investigating-nfl-painkiller-use\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Drug Enforcement Agency Investigating NFL Painkiller Use - Sports Injury Law\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"As a follow-up to the National Football League (NFL) lawsuit in which former players accuse the league of using painkillers to mask athletes’ injuries so the players could “play through the pain”, the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) is now investigating who distributed and provided those drugs.\u00a0 (Read more in a Washington Post article.) At Abrams…Continue reading →\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/landauinjurylaw.com\/theathleteslawyer\/2014\/09\/10\/drug-enforcement-agency-investigating-nfl-painkiller-use\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Sports Injury Law\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2014-09-10T06:20:02+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2014-09-15T02:13:18+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/landauinjurylaw.com\/theathleteslawyer\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/07\/RLL-MAFL-dkwl-post-VTLA-fun-run--300x224.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Law Shop\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Law Shop\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/landauinjurylaw.com\/theathleteslawyer\/2014\/09\/10\/drug-enforcement-agency-investigating-nfl-painkiller-use\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/landauinjurylaw.com\/theathleteslawyer\/2014\/09\/10\/drug-enforcement-agency-investigating-nfl-painkiller-use\/\",\"name\":\"Drug Enforcement Agency Investigating NFL Painkiller Use - Sports Injury Law\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/landauinjurylaw.com\/theathleteslawyer\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/landauinjurylaw.com\/theathleteslawyer\/2014\/09\/10\/drug-enforcement-agency-investigating-nfl-painkiller-use\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/landauinjurylaw.com\/theathleteslawyer\/2014\/09\/10\/drug-enforcement-agency-investigating-nfl-painkiller-use\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/landauinjurylaw.com\/theathleteslawyer\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/07\/RLL-MAFL-dkwl-post-VTLA-fun-run--300x224.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2014-09-10T06:20:02+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2014-09-15T02:13:18+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/landauinjurylaw.com\/theathleteslawyer\/#\/schema\/person\/18bf375fd1a4a0f3986935881765700f\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/landauinjurylaw.com\/theathleteslawyer\/2014\/09\/10\/drug-enforcement-agency-investigating-nfl-painkiller-use\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/landauinjurylaw.com\/theathleteslawyer\/2014\/09\/10\/drug-enforcement-agency-investigating-nfl-painkiller-use\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/landauinjurylaw.com\/theathleteslawyer\/2014\/09\/10\/drug-enforcement-agency-investigating-nfl-painkiller-use\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/landauinjurylaw.com\/theathleteslawyer\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/07\/RLL-MAFL-dkwl-post-VTLA-fun-run-.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/landauinjurylaw.com\/theathleteslawyer\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/07\/RLL-MAFL-dkwl-post-VTLA-fun-run-.jpg\",\"width\":2272,\"height\":1704,\"caption\":\"Shown here after the Virginia Trial Lawyers race with his wife and daughter, Doug Landau is concerned with the long-term effects of strong pain medications\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/landauinjurylaw.com\/theathleteslawyer\/2014\/09\/10\/drug-enforcement-agency-investigating-nfl-painkiller-use\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/landauinjurylaw.com\/theathleteslawyer\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Drug Enforcement Agency Investigating NFL Painkiller Use\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/landauinjurylaw.com\/theathleteslawyer\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/landauinjurylaw.com\/theathleteslawyer\/\",\"name\":\"Sports Injury Law\",\"description\":\"Our Agenda is Clear...Justice for All\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/landauinjurylaw.com\/theathleteslawyer\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/landauinjurylaw.com\/theathleteslawyer\/#\/schema\/person\/18bf375fd1a4a0f3986935881765700f\",\"name\":\"Law Shop\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/landauinjurylaw.com\/theathleteslawyer\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/f020c435feaaf7e54465e9984dbbba16fa0c22b36915965db4861a73eb334aca?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/f020c435feaaf7e54465e9984dbbba16fa0c22b36915965db4861a73eb334aca?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Law Shop\"},\"url\":\"https:\/\/landauinjurylaw.com\/theathleteslawyer\/author\/barbara\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Drug Enforcement Agency Investigating NFL Painkiller Use - Sports Injury Law","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/landauinjurylaw.com\/theathleteslawyer\/2014\/09\/10\/drug-enforcement-agency-investigating-nfl-painkiller-use\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Drug Enforcement Agency Investigating NFL Painkiller Use - Sports Injury Law","og_description":"As a follow-up to the National Football League (NFL) lawsuit in which former players accuse the league of using painkillers to mask athletes’ injuries so the players could “play through the pain”, the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) is now investigating who distributed and provided those drugs.\u00a0 (Read more in a Washington Post article.) At Abrams…Continue reading →","og_url":"https:\/\/landauinjurylaw.com\/theathleteslawyer\/2014\/09\/10\/drug-enforcement-agency-investigating-nfl-painkiller-use\/","og_site_name":"Sports Injury Law","article_published_time":"2014-09-10T06:20:02+00:00","article_modified_time":"2014-09-15T02:13:18+00:00","og_image":[{"url":"https:\/\/landauinjurylaw.com\/theathleteslawyer\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/07\/RLL-MAFL-dkwl-post-VTLA-fun-run--300x224.jpg","type":"","width":"","height":""}],"author":"Law Shop","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Law Shop","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/landauinjurylaw.com\/theathleteslawyer\/2014\/09\/10\/drug-enforcement-agency-investigating-nfl-painkiller-use\/","url":"https:\/\/landauinjurylaw.com\/theathleteslawyer\/2014\/09\/10\/drug-enforcement-agency-investigating-nfl-painkiller-use\/","name":"Drug Enforcement Agency Investigating NFL Painkiller Use - Sports Injury Law","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/landauinjurylaw.com\/theathleteslawyer\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/landauinjurylaw.com\/theathleteslawyer\/2014\/09\/10\/drug-enforcement-agency-investigating-nfl-painkiller-use\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/landauinjurylaw.com\/theathleteslawyer\/2014\/09\/10\/drug-enforcement-agency-investigating-nfl-painkiller-use\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/landauinjurylaw.com\/theathleteslawyer\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/07\/RLL-MAFL-dkwl-post-VTLA-fun-run--300x224.jpg","datePublished":"2014-09-10T06:20:02+00:00","dateModified":"2014-09-15T02:13:18+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/landauinjurylaw.com\/theathleteslawyer\/#\/schema\/person\/18bf375fd1a4a0f3986935881765700f"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/landauinjurylaw.com\/theathleteslawyer\/2014\/09\/10\/drug-enforcement-agency-investigating-nfl-painkiller-use\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/landauinjurylaw.com\/theathleteslawyer\/2014\/09\/10\/drug-enforcement-agency-investigating-nfl-painkiller-use\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/landauinjurylaw.com\/theathleteslawyer\/2014\/09\/10\/drug-enforcement-agency-investigating-nfl-painkiller-use\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/landauinjurylaw.com\/theathleteslawyer\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/07\/RLL-MAFL-dkwl-post-VTLA-fun-run-.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/landauinjurylaw.com\/theathleteslawyer\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/07\/RLL-MAFL-dkwl-post-VTLA-fun-run-.jpg","width":2272,"height":1704,"caption":"Shown here after the Virginia Trial Lawyers race with his wife and daughter, Doug Landau is concerned with the long-term effects of strong pain medications"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/landauinjurylaw.com\/theathleteslawyer\/2014\/09\/10\/drug-enforcement-agency-investigating-nfl-painkiller-use\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/landauinjurylaw.com\/theathleteslawyer\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Drug Enforcement Agency Investigating NFL Painkiller Use"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/landauinjurylaw.com\/theathleteslawyer\/#website","url":"https:\/\/landauinjurylaw.com\/theathleteslawyer\/","name":"Sports Injury Law","description":"Our Agenda is Clear...Justice for All","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/landauinjurylaw.com\/theathleteslawyer\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/landauinjurylaw.com\/theathleteslawyer\/#\/schema\/person\/18bf375fd1a4a0f3986935881765700f","name":"Law Shop","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/landauinjurylaw.com\/theathleteslawyer\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/f020c435feaaf7e54465e9984dbbba16fa0c22b36915965db4861a73eb334aca?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/f020c435feaaf7e54465e9984dbbba16fa0c22b36915965db4861a73eb334aca?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Law Shop"},"url":"https:\/\/landauinjurylaw.com\/theathleteslawyer\/author\/barbara\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/landauinjurylaw.com\/theathleteslawyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/landauinjurylaw.com\/theathleteslawyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/landauinjurylaw.com\/theathleteslawyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/landauinjurylaw.com\/theathleteslawyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/landauinjurylaw.com\/theathleteslawyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5681"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/landauinjurylaw.com\/theathleteslawyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5922,"href":"https:\/\/landauinjurylaw.com\/theathleteslawyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5681\/revisions\/5922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/landauinjurylaw.com\/theathleteslawyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/landauinjurylaw.com\/theathleteslawyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/landauinjurylaw.com\/theathleteslawyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}