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Opioid Use in NFL Begets Use Later (CME/CE)

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  1. 02-04-2011, 11:53 AM #1
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    (MedPage Today) -- Retired National Football League players who abused opioid painkillers while active were most likely to use and abuse the same drugs after leaving the sport, the results of a telephone survey and analysis found...

    Opioid Use in NFL Begets Use Later (CME/CE) (click here for the full article at MedPage Today)

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  2. 03-17-2011, 11:11 AM #2
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    This should Not surprise anyone...

    If you do that job your gonna feel pain...
    C4-5: Mild disc height loss with central annular fissure. Small broad-based left paracentral disc protrusion. Moderate central canal stenosis-the disc protrusion abuts and mildly flattens the left ventral surface of the spinal canal.

    C5-6: Disc desiccation with mild height loss.Diffuse discosteophyte bulge and uncovertebral joint hypertrophy, moderate central canal stenosis- Severe neuroforaminal stenosis bilaterally, right greater than left
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