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Breitbart Sports
DEA Blitzes NFL
with Surprise Drug Inspections at Sunday Games
17 Nov 2014
The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) crashed NFL games on Sunday
to search for narcotics. The DEA questioned team medical staff and
inspected bags in an effort to determine whether teams illegally
distribute drugs to players.
The San Francisco 49ers and the Seattle Seahawks admit that federal
agents searched them after their road games. The feds focused on road
teams because of legal restrictions on doctors and nurses dispensing
narcotics outside of the areas in which they practice medicine. The
Washington Post and ESPN report that teams cooperated with the
investigation.
The Post reports:
Federal law prohibits anyone but a physician or nurse practitioner from
distributing prescription drugs, and they must meet myriad regulations
for acquiring, storing, labeling and transporting them. It is also
illegal for a physician to distribute prescription drugs outside of his
geographic area of practice. And it is illegal for trainers to
dispense, or even handle, controlled substances in any way.
The raids follow on the heels of a lawsuit with class-action
aspirations brought against the league by Jim McMahon, Roy Green, and a
smattering of other retired players alleging that "the NFL has
intentionally, recklessly, and negligently created and maintained a
culture of drug misuse, substituting players' health for profit." The
retired players allege that teams liberally dispense pain killers, to
which at least one of the plaintiffs admits a post-NFL addiction, to
enable injured athletes to compete.
A DEA spokesman cited the lawsuit to the Post as a motivation for the
surprise appearance of the feds at NFL stadiums on Sunday.
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