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Archive Home > 2012 > June > 10 > Deadly relief in a brutal sport

Deadly relief in a brutal sport

• Records show Derek Boogaard had easy access – legal and illegal – to the painkillers and sleeping pills attributed in his fatal overdose, despite a known history of addiction

By John Branch • New York Times News Service / The Bulletin
June 10, 2012

In his final three seasons playing in the National Hockey League, before dying last year at 28 of an accidental overdose of narcotic painkillers and alcohol, Derek Boogaard received more than 100 prescriptions for thousands of pills from more than a dozen team doctors for the Minnesota Wild and....

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