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Originally Posted by Redlan
"A lot of this, in terms of accountability and responsibly, comes down to team trainers and team doctors," Westhead said.
The article is pretty vague and I have not seen "The Problem of Pain" so i may haver missed the context but I do not agree with the above statement. Accountability and responsibility is up to the person taking the medicine to know what it is and what the potential side effects are.
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I don't know how professional athletes receive their pain killers. Do they go to the pharmacy like everybody else or do they just get it from the team/team doctors?
When I go to the pharmacy I get an information package with my new medicine and it lists side affects. That said, I've never read it, I just trust the doctors that prescribed it to me. I doubt I'm in the minority on that one either.