Bengals trainer mentioned in NFL/Drug lawsuit

[grampahol]

There is a line in the WAPO article that's pretty damning  for Sparling not mentioned in the OP..

Quote:“Can you have your office fax a copy of your DEA certificate to me? I need it for my records when the NFL ‘pill counters’ come to see if we are doing things right. Don’t worry, I’m pretty good at keeping them off the trail!"

While I very much disagree with  the WOD (war on  drugs) and think that we as citizens should be allowed to manage pain as we see fit teams still have to follow the rules just like the rest of us.
If NFL teams are going to get a pass and  let people who have no medical certification (trainers etc.)  to administer narcotic pain killers then the rest of us should have the same options.