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Players are the perfect population to see just how bad the opioid crisis really is. one study shows former players abuse opioids four times more than the general population. it's a tough, brutal game after all. constant pounding. hard hits. lots of pain. kyle turley, mike james. they felt they needed the opioids just to be able to do their job. >> your production is how you get paid. and you can't produce, you know, without playing on the field. >> opioids they were told by doctors were the best way to keep going. >> i got in to pain medicine at a time when we didn't have very good treatments ...

To go from one to two to three. >> to more than a dozen a day. it became a near deadly addiction. >> i was completely hopeless. these side effects are very real. suicide is a constant thought. raging on my family. all these kinds of things. >> raging on the football field. >> and now turley throws the helmet. >> everybody talks about marijuana as a gateway drug and reality was this was my gateway to drugs. >> football was? >> yeah. >> in many ways, football players are the perfect population to see just how bad the opioid crisis really is. one study shows former players abuse opioids four time...

Addiction. >> i was completely hopeless. these side effects are very real. suicide is a constant thought. raging on my family. all these kinds of things. >> raging on the football field. >> and now turley throws the helmet. >> everybody talks about marijuana as a gateway drug and reality was this was my gateway to drugs. >> football was? >> yeah. >> in many ways, football players are the perfect population to see just how bad the opioid crisis really is. one study shows former players abuse opioids four times more than the general population. it's a tough, brutal game after all. constant pound...

And by the way, the president of the united states does not watch "morning joe." he was watching a clip somewhere else of hillary clinton said the greatest part of our election was media screaming for crooked hillary clinton. he's moving back. >> the administration, you need to think about 25. >> i think -- i think the fake news media was pretty hostile toward hillary clinton throughout most of the campaign. so that's just fake news, donald. just fake news. >> "the new york times" broke the server story. she'll never forgive them. >> constant pounding. they hammered on it. and hillary clinton ...