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Teen drug use may not be tied to sports participation -  Teen drug use may not be tied to sports participation ... Playing team sports in high school may not influence whether or not teens use heroin or ... there were some exceptions, researchers report in the Journal of Adolescent Health .

Teen drug use may not be tied to sports participation - We already knew from several of my previous studies that while athletes in general are at a lower risk of opioid use, athletes involved in high contact sports like wrestling, football, ice hockey, and lacrosse are at a greater risk of misusing prescription opioids,” said lead study author Philip Veliz of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.