NFL & Players Association Award $500K to Investigators Studying Alternatives to Opioids for Post-Traumatic Headache

The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) reports that the academic medical center leads a study funded with $500,000 from the National Football League (NFL) and the NFL Players Association (NFLPA). The funding is directed to medical researchers including two UAMS pain specialists to investigate non-opioid alternatives for treating post-traumatic headache, a common after-effect of concussion and other forms of traumatic brain injury.

TrialSite reporter Arnie Mazer has been involved with sports reporting for decades in the New York City area where his father Bill Mazer pioneered sports talk radio in 1964 at what was at the time WNBC, and reports that today a majority of NFL players want to avoid opioid addiction.