Another good story about schools looking to use technology to find ways to address concussion issues, this time at South Carolina.
One question, though. Does anyone besides me find it a little strange that the NCAA apparently doesn’t monitor painkiller distribution at member schools? You’d think that would be an easy enough thing for it to do.
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Sometimes, when you monitor stuff, you find out things you don’t want to know.
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And don’t want to leave a paper trail…
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I think this is the very reason this sort of technology is not being adopted. In the article on helmets it was mentioned that a lot of people simply did not want to assume that much potential liability. Notice that even though a lot of the technology is used in practice it seems nobody wants it in the games but high schools.
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I’d like to give a mouth guard to Spurrier, but not quite the kind this article refers to.
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I think what you’re referring to is a ball gag. You supply that part, and i’ll buy the gimp suit…
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There was a good piece on HBO’s most recent Real Sports episode about pain killer addiction among college athletes. Unbeleivable.
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“Does anyone besides me find it a little strange that the NCAA apparently doesn’t monitor painkiller distribution”
Pain pills aren’t nearly as addictive or dangerous as reefers. After all, they are prescribed by doctors and approved by the FDA.
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LMAO I see what you did there. Nice.
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Agree wholeheartedly with your sarcasm.
My legs , from hip to ankle have been painful for some time and the knees are constantly in pain (because I’ve stopped smoking in the evening to facilitate sleep). I finally had enough, called my doctor and asked between two pain killers if I could take one that would be compatible with my other medications. When he asked why those two pain killers, I told him they were leftovers beginning from Jan 2014 operations and dentistry work. He told me if I was used to controlling my own painkillers like that, he had no problem with me self-medicating what I needed. He is aware that I smoked and knows I’ve now stopped due to the lung embolism, but he also is aware that the pain pills will be addictive long before THC ever will..
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Sorry to hear about your dilemma. Would a vaporizer be manageable? I have no idea about your condition but vaporizers are pretty easy on the lungs.
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I was at the GT/Clemson game this past season (yeah, I missed Auburn) with my Clemson grad best friend. There was a professor sitting next to us who was conducting research about on-field hits and the corresponding concussion(s). It was pretty techy (and i’m a tech guy, not a TECH guy), and the whole thing intrigued me.
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The NCAA is too busy monitoring whether a player sold his bowl game jersey for some spending cash to try keeping up with trivial stuff like the distribution of painkillers. There’s only so much the poor ol’ NCAA can do.
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It could be possible to do this in a general sense, but hard numbers on medications prescribed flirts with HIPPA, etc.
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A general sense is all I’m looking for.
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It strikes me that it is the Doctor who hands out pain meds not the school. I’m pretty sure that the numbers of scripts written by a particular Doctor is monitored by the DEA. I suspect this because Doctors are being charged in Federal and some State Courts for running pill mills. My WAG(Wild ass guess) is that someone monitors these pain killers it,thank god that it isn’t the NCAA….they can screw up anything we really don’t need them practicing medicine
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“Someone” can not tell a doctor how to practice medicine. If his practice falls outside the standard of care and a patient is harmed, a lawsuit can be brought. If he is breaking DEA rules, he can be prosecuted, but this is a long process.
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hit send before re-reading….. hopefully the thought came across.
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