During his years of playing college football, Steve Tate had seen athletes who had become dependent on opioids or otherwise gotten tangled up in drugs that allowed them to heal or play or walk or kill their pain. He was fully aware of cases — people — far and wide who got fooled by and hooked on those drugs.
It wasn’t until the need presented itself in the worst possible personal way that he turned to an alternative, an illegal one in the state of Utah, for help to dull not his own pain, but the suffering of his ill baby.