The first thought that crossed my mind (after my stomach down) when I saw the first of the tweets with sympathy after Rick RYPIEN (notes) through this week was "calm."
Rypien in him, I was flat out wrong, but was told it was my first reaction, as it was when Derek Boogaard (notes) are also dead.
It was my first thought I won some minor hockey pro, and I saw how the occasional use of analgesics can be.
At the beginning of last season of hockey, I wrote an article on steroids, saying that we need to better implement the tests - against none in the minors - for some players use them.
Analgesics are a completely different animal. For one, many of the boys a legitimate need for them. If you can get through a season without at least one prescription to get through the pain, the wonder years - and probably will not have a lot of ice time, and with being a guy who is apparently his way to avoid contact physical.
Any player will usually have a lot of 30 or more pain pills as low as possible (unless a serious injury) at some point, you need a dozen of them, then hang the rest.
And why not, eh? With all the bus tours, flights, and only one day off per week, it's nice to be able to do so, as downtime downtime legitimate.
The pills are sometimes more gifted back to his teammates as well, to make the long bus ride a little easier for those guys who love them. Needless to say, in that environment, "PK" is not hard to find.
Narcotic analgesics in the lower dose so just come to an older man. Five milligrams Vicodin (hydrocodone / acetaminophen) is basically Advil some hockey players. And that's how it starts.
The pills are designed to take away the pain - when there is no pain away, it becomes a light peak dopamine. And hey, be nice to have every time they have to travel, right?
Relief for those pills can help us understand why it feels more like a group of law enforcement are heavier users.
It makes sense - after his kind, is the biggest guys who have become accustomed to not worry so much about what might happen to their bodies. These guys put their faces, and joins the line almost every game, and because of this experience, the higher and lower altitudes lower than most players. It's their life and forcing them to use for relief more than others.
The abuse is not limited to this type of single player - goalkeeper, Scorers, the D-men and the rest almost was not released - but the police are in the lead.
When you take when you do not need ... Well, you develop a tolerance. Suddenly, two of them to feel something, and then three.
Who knows where this tour ends?
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I climbed into the shuttle to the hotel on Sunday morning, head to Anchorage, Alaska Airport. My team, the heads of steel Idaho, were unusually aggressive, to take some of the boys were in bed after a game Saturday night - I could barely lift my head, but they were not alcohol.
About 36 hours had passed since the spider webbed washer jaw bone held together by a screw 10 plates. An X-shaped plate attached to the jaw chin was split completely in half. Needless to say I was a child, Percocet and drank the liquid like water (oxycodone / paracetamol, each syringe is equal to a 10-mg tablet. Needed many syringes full date).
I sat in my hospital bed the night before and had a chance to talk (OK, mumbling AT) my girlfriend on the phone after the accident, which really should have been below my weak points. There was a chance I may look different, my hockey season is probably over (and after hitting 26 on the day when the puck hit my face, I had many years to play with) and my jaw had be tightly closed for nearly two months.
I did not know, but I never play the second amendment of pro hockey again.
Instead, I was pumped when I spoke with her, apparently because morphine is a hell of drugs (to steal a line from Rick James). I had to catch up with my reading and get boxes of TV series on DVD and watch them all and make smoothies with berries and great ice cream and peanut butter and have more time to get away with it and ... and ... and he would begin to subside.
Another success and excitement in my veins. Maybe I'll start a blog!
It is this kind of thing your mind can be distorted in this way is unbelievable. And fear.
It took another two steps and a few months until I could stop taking them and I was upset and sore for weeks after I have cut. I go several times sweating through my sheets that first week without my usual dose of drug.
They are really hard to stop - I would not say that he was engaged, but there is no doubt that my body had become physically dependent. I'm proud I was able to leave behind them when there was no medical need - some people are not so lucky.
I can not think of a former teammate in particular that I have no doubt would be higher in the ranks of hockey if he had not gone further than his. I have not talked to the guy in years - perhaps kicked - but when we play together, the boy was in a fog more often. Seeing the slow morning "hangover pill." I was not close enough to say something, and was convinced it was not my place anyway. He seemed happy with the pills, and certainly not the only professional player who feels that way.
When playing in the minors, they are always around. You do not need to stop. I have not the faintest idea whether that use is less common in the NHL as are the ECHL, but there was definitely a lot of casual use of the boys on the way up.
The thing is, they stop some guys climbing.
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When it comes to any hockey player in his mid 20's and beyond, most of them have been something terribly painful for the need for these pills. And I want to say that they were necessary.
Just by nature, some people are wired to love 'em, some are wired to hate them. When you run enough pills for guys enough, it is inevitable that you will hit a handful who love them just a bit too.
Pain management is itself a very serious thing, so these pills should be around a certain point. Because these medications are not going anywhere, we must understand how we can change things for the better.
I do not think there's an easy solution, but something has to change. We should not pay for these pills to help so many people in the lives of others.
Maybe the coaches to control the amount of pills individual prescription bottles each day. Maybe we just need to start with awareness of the problem.
All I know is that while many players use the pills to take the sting out of tenderness, it is sometimes their families end up feeling the pain.
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