A string of emails that began in 2010 with the Falcons' head trainer and reached all the way to owner Arthur Blank showed a franchise worried about its "excessive" reliance on painkillers.
Adrian Peterson empathizes with former players who are suing the NFL over painkillers and other medication they were given during their playing days.
A group of retired NFL players says in a lawsuit that the league illegally supplied them with risky painkillers that numbed their injuries and led to medical complications.
