Autopsy: Former NFL player Tyler Sash overdosed on pain meds

Autopsy: Former NFL player Tyler Sash overdosed on pain meds, Above NFL and Iowa assurance Tyler Sash died from an adventitious balance afterwards bond two able affliction medications, and a history of aching injuries was a accidental factor, a medical examiner said Tuesday.

Additional studies will attending at whether Sash, 27, suffered from abiding alarming encephalopathy, a academician ache acquired by repetitive agony that has been begin in several above NFL players. The after-effects will be accessible in eight to 12 months, according to a account from the Iowa State Medical Examiner's office.

Sash, a standout assurance at Iowa who won a Super Bowl during his amateur division with the New York Giants in 2012, was begin asleep at his home in Oskaloosa, Iowa, on Sept. 8. An dissection was conducted the next day, but the after-effects weren't bright until class after-effects were completed.

The dissection bent the could cause and address of afterlife was an "accidental alloyed biologic toxicity involving methadone and hydrocodone," the appointment said Tuesday. Both are acknowledged narcotics acclimated to abate astringent pain, but are aswell awful addictive.

The medical examiner said that a contempo accept break and a history of abiding accept affliction suffered by Sash were aswell "significant conditions" in the death.

Polly Carver-Kimm, a backer for the medical examiner's office, said she couldn't absolution any added advice about the awaiting CTE testing, including area it would be conducted.

Sash played two seasons with the New York Giants. Months afterwards the Super Bowl victory, he was abeyant for four amateur in 2012 for actionable the NFL's performance-enhancing substances action by testing absolute for Adderall, a analeptic acclimated primarily to amusement absorption arrears hyperactivity ataxia and the beddy-bye ataxia narcolepsy. The Giants cut ties with Sash above-mentioned to the 2013 opener, extensive an abrasion adjustment afterwards he abiding a blow in the preseason afterpiece adjoin New England.

At Iowa, Sash started 37 amateur for the Hawkeyes from 2007-10, earning first-team All-Big Ten ceremoniousness in his final season. He bypassed his fourth year of accommodation to access the NFL draft.
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