Painkillers are a drug used to help in relieving pain.
Painkillers were not generally referred to as performance enhancing drugs until recent discussion and controversy from sports such as the NFL.
It was argued that Painkillers only helped athletes in pain restore back to normal, thus giving them no advantage but simply help them reach normal playing levels to match their surrounding athletes.
They even raised the argument that it would be ridiculous to ban painkilling medication as aspirin is a drug that relieves headache pain as well as advil and tylenol, and those can not possibly be banned for athlete usage.
Because of this, a list was constructed that banned the usage of more severe and powerful painkillers such as morphine and cortisol.
NFL athletes were quite rattled by this decision as it was common for football players to use cortisol to 'freeze the pain'.
Painkillers were not generally referred to as performance enhancing drugs until recent discussion and controversy from sports such as the NFL.
It was argued that Painkillers only helped athletes in pain restore back to normal, thus giving them no advantage but simply help them reach normal playing levels to match their surrounding athletes.
They even raised the argument that it would be ridiculous to ban painkilling medication as aspirin is a drug that relieves headache pain as well as advil and tylenol, and those can not possibly be banned for athlete usage.
Because of this, a list was constructed that banned the usage of more severe and powerful painkillers such as morphine and cortisol.
NFL athletes were quite rattled by this decision as it was common for football players to use cortisol to 'freeze the pain'.
Examples of Painkillers include:
Advil
Tylenol
Morphine
Cortisol
Orajel
Etc.