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Why football fears tramadol: ‘It’s an evil drug – it nearly killed me’. World Anti-Doping Agency's decision to put painkiller on banned list from January could have serious consequences for players (theathletic.com)

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[–] C_arpet@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Chris Kirkland did a heart breaking interview on Talkshite yesterday. He's really open about his addiction, relapses and how he's trying to stay clean. It really is reckless, the availability of these opiates.

On a less important reason for banning this, when cycling banned it, one of the reasons was.it was impairing riders' judgement and they were more likely to make dangerous decisions in races.