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for players football is more than just a game it's life but many are playing a game with their life playing with painkillers taking legal drugs to test their limits of a much bigger. profit in the. tired. enough mind as we just wish for so it just felt. is it doping how dangerous are painkillers and why don't collapse like those questions. life explore one of football's dirty secrets. form a better blame and strike or even class niche is a cautionary tale when it comes to painkiller consumption in professional football

and it's often dramatic consequences for example on kidney function in 2017 was in hospital receiving dialysis 3 times a week later that year he got his 3rd kidney transplant. 3 years on aged just 40 his health has deteriorated due to the painkiller consumption during his playing days. in his time of veteran blame and team doctor gets to man ski supplied him with pain medication for years. q says the doctor of malpractise saying he failed to recognise the damage to his kidney which demands he denies since 2008 a damages case worth millions of euros has been rumbling on classen it's currently refuses to comment due to the ongoing trial. many players feared going public on the issue but some have chosen to speak out. revealing the true extent of the

consumption of illegal drugs in professional football. because. he is in. losses. in the amount of i'm going to. divide that some off and. then go ahead and give us this level height methodist and. it's medication used to treat inflammation lower fevers and numb pain. that's a mole diclofenac substances many people have at home which are usually available over the counter but regular use can have disastrous consequences over time they

damage the kidneys the stomach. and even cause heart failure. we found that i prefer an increased the probability of cardiac arrest by 30 percent we also found that. also even higher increased risk of arrest the probability of us increased by 50 percent. danny schoene started taking painkillers just 17 when he was fighting to earn his 1st professional contract in hamburg. to near them that's not much of. a fine. interview from the liason here i envision vegas mats not as a hobby stomachs and i'm a funk by. the tablet and so given he then played for several bundesliga sides before moving abroad injuries plagued his career pain medication became part

of his routine so delights in the hi fi. smell. good king and how to be. that mitch and the spirit. only needed done yes make need think. for some thoughts on this new the former pro your home a brother of germany international markets went even further shortly before kick off he once took for injections into his knee. convinced he needed to play whatever the cost. was gone a simple got to be up and done a lot of the by the book was. in this year's king for michele field funneling money and discoursed. since you've already come in to get funds for them and ok my comes over but. when i. lost my. painkillers part of

everyday life for football is something which on your own berlin defender. finds disturbing he has tried to stay away from the pills which is so often used as the easy solution. for you just kind of keep this. even. walker for walker because you don't get it for them should be you know. up dust on the best of it it's not tradition. understood he had to make complet. fair also and also. when the exception becomes the rule it brings with it a heavy price to pay. this is the. builder would ask me to furnish more than here. to call.

by interest if it's for sleep as a child is of of in fall of the. this is. not met. it's a problem that is fueled by football's tough guy culture if you can't play through the pain you want good all strong enough. to. give this and to give in but then z. it's been. made for. nich minutes i'm going to spin a skit last minute. to. gain. training on.

the pressure to perform club doctors like oftentimes too much flourish in a difficult position there's a clear conflict of interest within a football club coaches want their charges on the pitch not on the treatment table . they help the smart. move to. see more fun for. me and. finally time for. in person when the minutes. of the 18 bundesliga clubs wanted to talk to us about their use of painkillers do doctors have the final word under pressure to get players fit faster than humanly possible the team doctor of 3rd division side. says the demands are too high

that. this is the. players who spend too much time off the pitch. injury prone and the 1st to be cleared out when the club wants to save wages. well footballers it's about their livelihood. and one who's bushby a financial feet of ice and. doesn't even it's just a new kind of the best of the new kind of intervening us not something the income owned this being a thief was an attorney who. done it on invited to be told an incident

. the strain on players has increased immensely over the decades more kilometers run more sprints higher intensity. pain killers used to numb the pain or increase performance it's a gray area the substances do affect performance by shifting the pain threshold so how different is it from doping. the the not to take a life from should i go or is still pretty young. doping is not a source of the list the state opening is showing according to its lee so difficult that the licensed icon wolf will not truly heroic sites the strivings or the snow modern moment on the old stopping good. taste in montreal canada is the world anti doping agency the body which decides what substances are banned in sporting competitions. why does science director believes pain killers do not belong on that

list and there is a general opinion that pain killers are not performance enhancing they can restore performance but are not necessarily performance enhancing if you look at the risk for health i mean those substances are being widely used in all societies and if they are use according to the manufacturer's recommendations for the doe's under frequency they are not considered to be risky substances and in its anti doping code water lists 3 criteria to determine whether a substance should be prohibited. firstly if it in harms his performance. secondly if it presents a health risk to the athlete. and thirdly if it violates the spirit of the sport. if a substance fulfills 2 of those criteria it is banned. scientists

at the renowned doping control the burra tree in cologne interpret the anti doping code differently to wada. the misuse of painkillers equates to doping says biochemist. vibrating rooms in the food licensed title or because one divides can fathom scenes of hidden for food one can base the lies to bring in. the. winter they munch not smitten into the need in their conference melts fiddle couldn't copy it and sign off my 1st name is from spot you just pushed us out of it distracts them on your no spot i've been conned. indiaman smaltz may go to me to comment in the end is that shawn. for the players this massive consumption of painkillers is not a game it's a risk to their health a risk that many seem willing to take to make it onto the big. stage.

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