The Problem of Pain
The high cost of painkiller abuse in professional hockey
From a young age, hockey players have been taught to play through pain and push themselves to the limit. A TSN investigation examines the use of painkillers by professional hockey players and speak with some of them about their fears over the drugs' potential long-term side effects.
- Runtime
- 24m
- Genres
- Documentary
Casting
- Rick Westhead — Self - Narrator
- Kyle Quincey — Self
- Derek Boogaard — Self (Archive)
- Kurt Overhardt — Self
- Philip Marsden — Self
- Ryan Kesler — Self
- Zenon Konopka — Self
- Justin Roethlingshoefer — Self
- Bobby Ryan — Self
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