03-10-2017, 06:02 PM
(03-10-2017, 01:44 PM)grampahol Wrote: There is a line in the WAPO article that's pretty damning for Sparling not mentioned in the OP..
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.
He asked for a copy of a DEA certificate for recording keeping purposes. That is standard practice. That doesn't delegate prescribing authority to a trainer. From that quote, I don't detect any misconduct.
Matter of fact, I just turned in a copy of my DEA certificate today.