Re: Brady's Foot - what 2+2 = for me
BTW, earlier in the thread someone was talking about how an athlete would never take an oral narcotic during a game -- this is very much not the case.
Pretty much all NFL players are fairly acclimated to taking regimens of painkillers. As any junky knows, the problem with opiates is that the "high" dimishes rapidly, and soon you need more to get the same effect.
The same is true of their efficacy in pain relief -- but at a much slower rate than the euphoria and sluggishness. Thus, most athletes have developed enough of a tolerance to the intoxicating effects of narcotics that they can take clinical doses of them before a game to help deal with the pain during the game, and the degree to which it will slow them down mentally ends up being less than the degree to which they'd be slowed down mentally from their body's reaction to pain.
I can testify to that, as someone who's had to take pain killers to recover from invasive surgery -- at first you assume it's all the pain killers that are making you so out of it, but then, as you heal, you realize that it was the pain and body trauma as much, if not more, than the opiates, that were making you dopey.
