MDtizzle

True. On the same note I was thinking if nick retires then they really gotta get crazy and change the face Of the team but maybe that's a bit too much at once.

One weak season doesn't make Detroit a place people dont wanna play but they have to make it clear that they are trying to add significant young talent- may need suter to get Parise and vice versa ?

Kenny Holland's offseason plan: Keep sucking **** and signing a bunch of s***ty hockey players. He's good at them both

although i posted the original non-opioid thing, I agree with you- but its not a sure thing. When i was on percocet after my ankle surgery it didnt affect me too much. helped keep the pain down so i could sleep or function otherwise.

If he's only taking them for games and not practices, I'm guessing that it's something strong.  He probably does the standard NSAIDs for regular life and something stronger (hydro, oxy, whatever) for games.  

If he's taking, say for example, 5/500 hydro for games, that's a pretty low dose and he would be fine to play without any bad side effects and if he's only taking it for games, the chance of addiction would be less than if they just give it to him and have him take it PRN.

I was on that dose before my back surgery.  It works well, except it made my already low blood sugar drop.  Chocolate for medicinal purposes!  What a concept!

If he needs something stronger, I'm sure it is closely supervised.  People tend to freak out over opiates, but they have perfectly good medicinal value when used correctly.

Ok so NSAIDs, topical numbing agents and cortisteroids.  Im gonna assume that Pain medication in this context isnt Hydrocodone, Oxycodone, Methadone or Buprenefin (the two latter being synthetics, Methadone being a opiate agonist and Bupe being an opiate antagonist although having the same opiate like effects).

BTW I have had to take these and others due to my medical issues also from Osteoarthritis and seeing that he quoted directly that he was take pain meds, made me think of the worst.  Not saying he isnt considering the rampant abuse of oxy in general among Hockey players and just about everyone else in the modern world right now but I hope its more sedate medications.

actually it was dumb to put the last 2 or 3 on the list i posted, but my point is that  'pain meds' doesn''t mean he's on oxycontin out there. although that would explain some things too.

all of the opiates above are synthetics, the latter 2 having way different purposes and he'd have to be on injured reserve before ever getting near those. Buprenorphine is usually used for detox-type situations

WTF???  Can anyone tell me what pain meds are authorized for use during competition?  If this is opiate pain medication, he has no reason being on the ice.  He is not only risking the play on the ice, he is risking himself in general.  I would consider full contact professional hockey to be about 15 clicks up from driving on the dangerous scale and you arent allowed to drive while under the influence of narcotics.  

eh?





Cyclobenzaprine
Indomethacin
Diclofenac (maybe shouldnt count )
Gabapentin
Lidocaine patches
And others.