Detroit Lions linebacker DeAndre Levy is coming off a painful hip surgery that required a lengthy and painful rehabilitation. Naturally, he was prescribed pain medication. Interestingly, he declined to take any.
But why?
“That’s a bigger issue, but I try to stay away from them,” Levy told the Detroit Free Press. “It’s too easy to prescribe. Painkillers. Toradol. It’s just putting a Band-Aid on something, but we’re potentially developing a bigger issue for players when they’re done.”