Here’s What The Overdose Death Trial Of Major League Baseball Pitcher Tyler Skaggs Missed About America’s Opioid Crisis

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Here’s What The Overdose Death Trial Of Major League Baseball Pitcher Tyler Skaggs Missed About America’s Opioid Crisis
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“One important way to understand what happened in the case of this tragic overdose death of a professional athlete is to recognize it as yet another tragic example … of what American society at large has been suffering through.”

, according to news reports, whereupon he returned to the Angels' clubhouse. He was then trying to quit opioids, according to testimony from Parker, even though players were still asking him for pills. An attorney for Kay did not reply to a request from BuzzFeed News for comment on his recovery program after his May release from rehab, and there was no mention of it at the trial.

“What sort of surprises me is that we don't see any evidence of medical staff involvement with these people” in the Kay trial, said Mishka Terplan, Friends Research Institute medical director and an expert in addiction medicine. “Addiction is a chronic disease, and chronic diseases require chronic management,” Terplan added, not just a month of rehab or a detoxification program, in which people are medically treated through withdrawal before they are put back into their old situation.

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