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How NFL Player David Holloway Avoided Chronic Pain and Opioid Addiction with Alternative Pain Treatments

  I recently had the pleasure of interviewing   David Holloway , a former National Football League (NFL) linebacker who is now a motivational speaker. Holloway is a third-generation major league athlete. His maternal grandfather played in the National Hockey League (NHL) and his father played in the NFL. As Holloway tells it, he grew up around greatness and had the opportunity to learn from the best. At almost 40, Holloway is in peak health, having avoided the devastation that often accompanies a career in professional football, where injuries almost invariably lead to chronic pain and for many opioid addiction. So many players have  succumbed to opioid addiction  that a class action lawsuit has been filed against the NFL for the overly liberal dispensing of these drugs to keep players on the field. Many players have had multiple surgeries for their injuries that continue way beyond their retirement, including Holloway’s father, who has had 16 surgeries on his knee a...