ADD really impacts one's executive functioning...the ability to plan and organize and sustain attention, among other things. It would be a shame if he was penalized for something like this.
and it did help while I was taking it, but now that I'm off it, I have no problem going to the mall to buy sneakers. I got these new pair of addias, white with the green stripes. They just scream awesome. I hung out with some dude last week who had a pair and I had to get them for myself. He drives a Camaro, what were we talking about again?
to ban something like Adderrall given the abuse of the drug. I'm sure that the paperwork to allow for the use requires information from the prescribing doctor. If he can show the prescription, perhaps they will overturn the suspension.
That said, if he had a diagnosis of ADD and simply forgot the paperwork to continue it (WHILE he had a valid Rx. for it) that's more a clerical error than using it for abuse
accurate then the league really went too far here. If he's taking adderrall it's for a long term "non-curable" issue like AD/HD so it's not as if they would allow it for x long but not y.
based on the recent precedent with Texans punter Brett Hartmann - similar issue with Ritalin where he had a paperwork issue leading to a violation and a 4 game suspension that was reduced on appeal to 3 games. link - ( New Window )
without all the evidence, we should not rush to innocent judgement until the dust settles. A lot of guilty folk claim innocence. At this point, we simply don't know what's what.
That said, it's bullshit for any player, any team to get reamed for paperwork error. IF true about the magnamity of accepting the error and reducing the punishment to 3 games instead of 4 for the player listed above, that's bullshit.
On the other hand, IF the suspension gives us a roster exemption (I don't know the rules) for 4 games, it might work in his favor. Sounds like he's a bubble player, so an exemption would give him life if the inevitable injuries start piling up.
actually read the link about the Texans player, he did not have prior approval to take Ritalin, and thus it was not a clerical error. After getting caught, he went out and got proper approval from doctors. The way I read it is that Brown is claiming he had prior approval, and just forgot to file for continuing approval.
And I'd say that for any player on any team.
i remember taking it in college cramming for exams....steroids for the brain
All we made in the specialty building was meth
and methadone .
It may well be the guy did nothing wrong at all aside from paperwork and will win his appeal. Too soon to say.
link - ( New Window )
That said, it's bullshit for any player, any team to get reamed for paperwork error. IF true about the magnamity of accepting the error and reducing the punishment to 3 games instead of 4 for the player listed above, that's bullshit.
On the other hand, IF the suspension gives us a roster exemption (I don't know the rules) for 4 games, it might work in his favor. Sounds like he's a bubble player, so an exemption would give him life if the inevitable injuries start piling up.