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Brett Favre's struggles with painkillers during his time as an NFL player are well known. The former Packers quarterback and soon-to-be Hall of Famer battled addiction to pills during his tenure in Green Bay (notably in 1996 when he voluntarily entered the league's substance-abuse program) as he became the model for an ironman quarterback.
He's discussed them before, during a book he wrote, but the subject came back up during an interview on "In Depth With Graham Bensinger," and Favre dropped some pretty heady information as to his usage during that time.