By BEN HART
Danny Cipriani called it a magic pill, but RPA General Secretary Christian Day says the time is right for addictive painkiller Tramadol to be prohibited.
England fly-half Cipriani revealed last month that there were times during his rugby career when he was taking Tramadol, an opioid, most days in search of relief.
Cipriani is far from an isolated case, with the drug previously prescribed regularly to rugby players as pain relief. And Day, who spent a decade and a half playing in England’s top flight for Sale and Northampton, knows why the World Anti-Doping Agency has taken the...
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