HOUSTON -- Houston Texans inside linebacker Brian Cushing said his 10-game suspension for violating the NFL’s performance-enhancing substance policy stemmed from an unapproved prescription drug he was taking to help him with “things bothering me in this past offseason, most mentally.”
“I was getting a prescription medication that I probably [should] have been ... more careful with and I should have communicated with the league a lot better about,” Cushing said. “I take full responsibility for it, and [it's] something now I'm working with the league at taking again through their terms and through their doctors to OK it.