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Anaesthetics over aesthetics: welcome to rugby league’s painkiller knockouts
Malcolm Knox argues that painkilling injections let injured players keep competing, while therapeutic-use exemptions permit drugs that can cause lasting harm.
An athlete who can run, pass and kick only with the help of painkillers is enjoying a more enhanced performance than if he was lying on his couch watching.