| NFL teams broke laws governing prescription drugs and ignored guidance on distributing them, sealed court filings say |
National Football League teams violated federal laws governing prescription drugs, disregarded guidance from the Drug Enforcement Administration on how to store, track, transport and distribute controlled substances, and plied their players with powerful painkillers and anti-inflammatories each season, according to sealed court documents that were reviewed by The Washington Post.
The filings, which were prepared by lawyers for former players suing the NFL, include testimony and documents from team and league medical personnel that describe multiple instances in which team and league officials were made aware of abuses, record-keeping problems and even violations of federal law and were either slow in responding or failed to comply. |
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