NFL players choose cannabis oil over opioids to manage pain
NFL players are three times as prone to abusing opioid pain medications due the multiple injuries typically sustained during a career in professional football. Because of this, many are now looking to cannabis as a replacement for dangerously addictive pharmaceutical painkillers.
The Gridiron Cannabis Coalition (GCC), a group consisting primarily of former and current NFL athletes, is helping to fund research into the use of cannabis oil as an alternative to opioid painkillers such as OxyContin and Vicodin.
The research is being conducted under the guidance of Constance Finley, founder and CEO of Constance Therapeutics, who said:
"I was inspired to work with GCC because so many athletes have been failed by traditional medicine, just as I have. After cycling through several prescription drugs with the hope of finding relief from my rare autoimmune disease, I reluctantly tried medical cannabis. This ended up being the decision that would save my...
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