Mike Tyson admits to use powerful drugs while boxing at the end
Mike Tyson only admitted to having used drugs during his boxing career to deal with pain.
While appearing in the “Podcast Katie Miller” episode, the heavyweight champion said he briefly took the powerful Fentanyl analgesic while competing in the late 1990s.
“It was an analgesic, and I used to use it to stop my foot,” Tyson said about the substance, which is a synthetic opioid that is estimated to be 50 times more powerful than heroine.
When comparing the effects and symptoms of abstinence of both drugs, the boxer said: “It was like heroin. Once the curite disappears and removes the curite, you start retiring, vomiting, as if you were in heroine.”
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Tyson revealed that he used the substance “several times” and only stopped after learning that he could have finished his high -level boxing career.
“It was illegal yes [was] Trapped in my blood torrent, “he told Miller.” It was a narcotic, my friend told me. It was new. I told my friend: ‘Could I use this?’ “
“No one has heard of that,” Tyson recalled. “Then look at me and say: ‘Mike, that’s a narcotic. You couldn’t use.’ I didn’t know.”
The United States Food and Medicines Administration has approved the fentanyl for pain management when medical professionals recipe it, but the medicine has seen an increase in illicit use in recent years as a cheaper and stronger alternative to heroin or other popular pills such as Oxycontin and Percet.
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Last year, the disease control centers estimated that more than 48,000 people died from synthetic opioid overdose, mainly caused by fentanyl.
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During his interview with Miller, Tyson wondered why the drug control administration currently classifies cannabis as risky than something as strong and insecure as fentanyl.
The DEA classifies cannabis as a substance of Annex I, which means that “it has a high abuse potential, without currently accepted medical use.” Fentanyl is found in Annex II, defining it as a medicine with “legitimate medical use” under the supervision of a licensed medical professional.
Tyson has been a firm defender of medical cannabis and told the host of the podcast who was in a “mission of giving justice to cannabis” when reprogramming the drug with the eventual objective of federal legalization.