In the NFL, Calvin Johnson discusses opioid abuse

In the NFL, Calvin Johnson discusses opioid abuse

Detroit Lions legend Calvin Johnson said he smoked cannabis after each round of his NFL profession to maintain a strategic distance from the uncontrolled maltreatment of narcotics in the class. 

Johnson told Michael Rosenberg of Sports Illustrated in a meeting discharged Friday that he utilized pot as a recuperating drug every week, except other relief from discomfort alternatives were promptly accessible for players. 

"When I got to the alliance, [there] was narcotic maltreatment," he said. "You truly could go in the preparation room and get what you needed. I can get Vicodin, I can get Oxy[contin]. It was excessively accessible. I utilized Percocet and stuff that way. Furthermore, I didn't care for the manner in which that made me feel. I had my favored decision of prescription. Cannabis." 

Johnson, who stunned the NFL world when he resigned after only nine seasons in 2015, said there was an "extremely solid plausibility" he would have played longer if the Lions were a contender. 

"Not so much," the six-time Pro Bowl choice reacted when asked by Rosenberg whether it was an occurrence both he and Hall of Fame running back Barry Sanders resigned at age 30 as individuals from the Lions. 

Presently 33, the Georgia Tech item said he endured in any event nine blackouts during his time in Detroit. He likewise defeated innumerable different wounds in transit to missing only nine of a conceivable 144 normal season games, incorporating one year in which he harmed a foot, a lower leg and the two knees. 

"Bam, hit the ground genuine hard. I'm seeing stars; I can't see straight," he educated Rosenberg regarding his blackouts. "Yet, I know in a few minutes I'm going to be fine. Since I've done that a lot of times previously." 

Johnson currently claims a cannabis organization, Primitive, with previous Lions partner Rob Sims, and Locker Room Consulting, which is planned for helping players with getting ready for their professions after football. 

He's confident a call from the Hall of Fame will in the long run come, yet he doesn't feel that will give the last decision about the effect he made in his prime, per Sports Illustrated. 

"I was a monster during that time; I was pass on the best recipient in the game," he said. "I'm not going to contend with you, yet I realize I was." 

Johnson was named a first-group All-Pro multiple times during a profession wherein he piled on 731 gatherings for 11,619 yards and 83 touchdowns in 135 games.