I read that (according to a coach) he had a long history of being a difficult patient and ignoring medical advice on dealing with his football injuries, the last one of which (some 6 years ago) was a broken ankle. I don’t think he’d been playing for a while, and sometime before Covid, he’d opened a smoothie shop in town. However, it closed and went out of business during the shutdown.
He seems to have gotten addicted to prescription pain killers and the doctor was trying to wean him off them.
His parents were neighbors of the doctor and family.
Opiod pain killer addiction?
That makes sense.
If you are using a high level of painkillers, and then have to stop, the pain is magnitude times WORSE.
Not excusing this, but to be honest I know people who have done some rather horrible things when the opioids are cut off. One reason I will deal with pain and never take them.