of them became addicted to the pain meds and that didn't stop once they retired from the game. >> j.d. hillrs. j.d., tell us your story. you played part of your career for the detroit lions. tell me about how many pills that you took. >> to give you an accurate account of that, i would be inaccurate at this time. the amount of pills we were taking prior to the game, pills to go to sleep, pills to play, pills to play at half-time, pills after the game. no one ever told us about the effects of these drugs that we were getting. some of the guys -- some of us drank beer. after that they would give us these pills and then give us alcohol, and that's stacking. they never told us about the long lasting effects of what it would do to us. in fact, what end u happening to me, after they put me out of the good old boy club and i was put out of the locker room, i'm on the streets, i'm with my family, still in pain. they didn't say, here is a is a of doctors you can go to, here is how you continue to take care of yourself. being in the pain, my mindset was i've got to get it somewhere. i ended up going

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j.d. hill. i'll show you a picture. he's the top row. he's other on the right-hand side.e is one of eight former nfl players who are now suing the nfl league. saying instead of surgery when they were hurt, they got pills. instead of time off to heal, they got injections to dull the pain. they say the nfl wants only one thing, a winning team. and the health of their players be damned. with me from houston dawson, an 11-year veteran of the football league. doug, you understand the culture of the league and you played through the same sort of era as those who are suing the league right now. can you give me a bit of a feel for whether there is merit, at least in what you witnessed, to the allegations that are work made? >> well in my experience, ashleigh, there's a tremendous amount of pressure to play when you're hurt, but in my experience, the pressure was put on by me. i developed early in my career tendonitis in my achilles and was trying to do everything i could to get on the field. i took injections. i took things for pain. i took anti-inflammatories really beyond the p

. >> reporter: j.d. hill, a former buffalo bill, is suing, too.e says the rampant and random use of drugs in the nfl got him addicted. >> we would never know what we really were taking at times. and i could stand by that on oath. >> reporter: the nfl says it's too early to comment. >> was only just made aware of it just briefly. but i don't believe any of our attorneys have had an opportunity to look at. and as you know, i've been in meetings all day. >> reporter: this is the second big legal hit for the nfl coming from its own former players. the league has agreed to pay more than $760 million to settle that concussion suit. robin? >> thank you, jim. >>> and abc's chief legal affairs anchor, dan abrams, joins us now. picking up on what jim just said there, what is the difference between that lawsuit involving concussions, and this one? >> this one is theoretically more dangerous to the league than the concussion case, because it could encompass a lot more retired players. you're talking about anybody prescribed as little as an aspirin, being part

j.d. hill played with the buffalo bills. they're here with their attorneys.it hard to join this lawsuit? you played at this level, it made you famous, to support your families, was it hard to join this lawsuit? >> no, it wasn't, we know the outcome, we know the effect having taken drugs, having ended up on drugs after my career. it wasn't hard at all. >> let me read the charges in the lawsuit. nfl players who were routinely given prescription drugs for long periods. the nfl illegally and unethically substituted pain medications for proper health care. does this square with your personal experience? >> it does. i think we're dealing with just mismanagement of controlled substances that they should have paid attention closer. and had my best interests and j.d.'s best interests at heart. >> are you talking about regular occurrences week after week after week? or isolated incidents? >> we're talking about week after week after week. >> absolutely, yeah. >> so as the lawsuit alleges, as one person in the lawsuit alleges, you're on the plane flying home from the ga

j.d. power appeal award, two years in a row. >>> welcome back to "squawk on the street." we've been watching testimony from janet yellen before the joint economic committee on capitol hill.et a window into the fed's thinking, and to see the market reaction. as we can see, the dow jones industrials average up near session highs, up almost 100 points. we did hit over 100 points. the nasdaq still lagging behind, but certainly off the session lows, down now .6%. the s&p 500 up .4%, and pretty much, steve liesman, back to levels pre-janet yellen testimony. so i guess as a central banker, she did her job? >> i think that's right, sarah. that's an excellent point, in that i think she went in trying to do no harm, in the sense she was comfortable with the markets positioning, in terms of where interest rates would be, where they were currently the level, and the forecast for when rates would go up from the federal reserve. let's look at the tale of the tape here. she said the weakness in the first quarter was the result of winter weather or transitory factors, expects a rebound in the second quarter, pointed to current data saying both production and spending looked like it was