1.   Although team medical staffs say they are prescribing fewer drugs and monitoring their inventories, some players are finding other ways to get prescription painkillers.

2.   At one time, several former coaches and current players said, there was easy access to the prescription painkillers.

3.   But she also spent part of the year at the Betty Ford Clinic fighting an addiction to prescription painkillers.

4.   Cindy McCain got hooked on Percoset and Vicodin, both prescription painkillers, while being treated for back and knee pain.

5.   For the better part of a decade, breakfast for Marco Mura consisted of a bag of heroin and a fistful of prescription painkillers washed down with coffee.

6.   He has prescription painkillers, but he holds off taking them.

7.   His is the most high-profile death caused by the prescription painkiller.

8.   Medical professionals in most states can be prosecuted for supplying terminally ill patients who intend to kill themselves with a lethal overdose of prescription painkillers.

9.   Taylor also recently underwent rehabilitation for addiction to a prescription painkiller called Vicodin, according to a South Florida newspaper.

10.   The operations failed to ease the pain, however, and she continued obtaining prescription painkillers from both doctors who performed the separate surgeries.