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A group of retired NFL players says in a lawsuit filed Tuesday that the league, thirsty for profits, illegally supplied them with risky narcotics and other painkillers that numbed their injuries for games and led to medical complications down the road. The league obtained and administered the drugs illegally, without prescriptions and without warning players of their potential side effects, to speed the return of injured players to the field and maximize profits, the lawsuit alleges. And others say that after years of free pills from the NFL, they retired from the league addicted to the painkillers. NFL spokesman Brian McCarthy, in Atlanta for the league's spring meetings, said: ''We have not seen the lawsuit and our attorneys have not had an opportunity to review it.'' The complaint was filed in U.S. District Court in San Francisco, and a copy was shared with The Associated Press ahead of the filing.
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