By Ken Belson — 2019
A brutal game got them hooked on painkillers. In retirement, they battle addiction. The opioid crisis courses through football.
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As a science journalist whose niche spans neuroscience, immunology, and human emotion, I knew at the time that it didn’t make scientific sense that inflammation in the body could be connected to — much less cause — illness in the brain.
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