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I guess the Trent trade was finally starting to settle in

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/201...lled-substance/

dude been hanging out with justin beiber.

He's got worse problems at the moment than Haslam does.

Reports out there now saying he is and has been addicted to pain killers... I guess thigns get painful when you don't have to worry about money or anything. Life sure does get hard when you got too much $

no take-backs!

Hopefully he can get some help and get his life straightened out.

Kravitz: Jim Irsay fighting for his life, needs help

In a twisted way, Jim Irsay's friends have been praying for this day. They've been praying for the day when he'd reach rock bottom and be forced to come to terms with a drug problem that he's battled for some time.

"He's a sick, sick man,'' one source told me. "He desperately needs help.''

There was a sad inevitability to what happened Sunday night in Carmel. Irsay faces four felony counts after being arrested on preliminary charges of driving under the influence and possession of a controlled substance. For years, Colts insiders have known that Irsay was struggling again with drugs. For years, they fought to get him into rehabilitation. At the very least, they fought to get him a driver in the hopes of keeping away from getting behind the wheel.

HOLDER: Irsay's arrest could lead to discipline by NFL commissioner

REACTION: Local, national media on Irsay's arrest

The Colts have been cleaning up Irsay's messes for years now. Time and again, Irsay dismissed the concerns of his close friends and confidantes, even if his increasingly gaunt physical appearance sent up red flags throughout the community.

I asked him two months ago about his weight loss, which has brought him from 235 pounds to 165 pounds, and he insisted that the doctors wanted him to lose weight to keep the strain off his troublesome back and hip.

I suspected otherwise.

Those of us who are around Irsay on a semi-regular basis suspected otherwise for a very long time.

So why didn't you write it?

That's a fair question. But it's much like the baseball players during the steroid era. Suspicions cannot be the basis for news stories. My feeling all along has been, "Unless he gets arrested for drugs, or acts erratically in a public setting while obviously under the influence, it will remain nothing more than an educated guess.''

Now he's been arrested.

The game has changed.

He has two big problems, besides the obvious drug issue: He's crazy rich and he has lots of free time. That is a dangerous cocktail for a man with a genetic predisposition to substance abuse.

That doesn't make him a bad man, just a troubled one, one who has been in and out of rehab on multiple occasions, one who needs to get himself some help again if he wants to be alive for the Colts' next Super Bowl.


This is not written in anger. It's written with compassion – although if he'd hurt someone while driving, it would take on a different tone. This is a man in the throes of addiction, a disease he's been fighting for years and years with mixed results.

Now comes the wake-up call.

Do you hear it, Jim? Do you hear it? Or do you press the snooze button and continue on this downward spiral?

There's no shame. There's no embarrassment. Fact is, if Irsay gets the help he needs, he'd be a public beacon for the multitudes who also need help with alcohol and drugs. Just as Chuck Pagano has taken the lead on finding a cure for cancer and more specifically leukemia, Irsay can be a guiding light for those in the grips of addiction.

He's just got to decide it's time.

Because, well, it is time.

As a secondary issue, there's now the question of what commissioner Roger Goodell will do once he collects all the pertinent information. I can promise you the NFL Players Association will watch this closely. Will the commissioner come down as hard on Irsay as he does the league's players? In 2010, Detroit Lions president Tom Lewand drew a 30-day suspension, $100,000 fine and performed community service after pleading guilty to driving while impaired. It wouldn't shock me if Goodell suspends or metes out some sort of harsh punishment against Irsay.

Again, though, that's secondary.

Based on several conversations with team officials and friends, this is a man fighting for his life.

Get some help, James.

Please, get some help.

Bob Kravitz is a columnist for The Indianapolis Star. Call him at (317) 444-6643 or email bob.kravitz@indystar.com. Follow him on Twitter: @BKravitz.

http://www.indystar.com/story/sports/kra...s-help/6523925/

I hope that he manages to defeat his demons and save his life.

A part of me want to make a joke about making one more trade with him ........ but that would be rude.

I agree.

I don't know what to think about this. He's clearly grown up with a silver spoon in his mouth. He certainly had the opportunity to become smart enough to avoid such problems...

ON the other hand, booze and drugs can take a normally strong person and turn them to dust.

I hope he fights his demons and wins..

I will catch hell for this but who cares, The guy has problems just like the rest of us. Money does not fix personal problems. I Pray that he can get over the demons that haunt him

I agree. The guy is an arrogant jerk. Look at some of his public comments.

I also think the Kravitz article was too freaking sympathetic. Genetic disposition, my butt. We all have issues to deal with.

You can be an abused child in a family of alcoholic dead-beats and still succeed. Is it tougher for you? Darn right. Does it mean you have to be the same way? Hell no.

I don't hate the guy because of what he has done, but I don't have much sympathy for him. He has ignored the advice of friends and made poor life decisions. Fix yourself or be dammed.

I could imagine how hard it would be to quit using when you have all that freakin' money.

What is that old saying? 'The only thing worse than an alcoholic is an alcoholic with money.' Same goes with any other drugs, me thinks.

His best bet is to quit everything, once and for all. When stuff like this happens to a user, it's just plain time to wise up. If you don't, further negative things will probably eventually happen to you. That's the hole you'll dig.

My two cents.

3rd_and_20 (17 years clean & sober)

Congrats on the 17 years. Now, concentrate on making it one more day.

It's always one day at a time.

I know what you mean. I was smoking two to three big cigars a day. Quit cold turkey.

Quitting drugs/alcohol is a lot harder, but it's all about will power and taking control of your own fate.

I'm proud of you. Keep it up, bro.

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I will catch hell for this but who cares, The guy has problems just like the rest of us.

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I do, just like I care for the rest of you.

What can the commish do in a situation like this? Suspend him? Fine him? Dock draft picks?

Oh no you get a lap dance sis

JC

Apparently he wasn't fighting very hard before his arrest. Rehab immediately after the arrest = Lawyer's advice to limit his sentence. Best of luck to him, but I think some jail time could really help his "fight."

Prescription pills are getting out of control in this country. Instead of fighting our war on weed, we should to take a look at the Pharmaceutical Companies and doctors that are pushing these pills. Way more Overdoses and addicts on these pills than most people would think.

This is the dire truth. I'm so paranoid on most pills that I rarely take them unless there is an absolute need (speaking of pain killers.) People get hooked on these things easily and these days, they seem easily obtainable as' well.

Getting out of control ?. Where you been brother ?

Addiction is no joke. Just hope he can get the help that he needs.

I had some oral surgery about a month ago. I was given 2 scrips:

1. a 10-day course of antibiotics
2. a 10-day script for Oxy.

I only filled the scrip for the antibiotics. I got by just fine on 2.5 days worth of 500 mg. Aleve... and didn't really need pain-killers after that.

In almost 6 decades of living, I've been described as a lot of things....
"Junkie" isn't one of them.

I'll hold off on that one as long as I can... even if my physician tries to hook me-

It's a HUGE issue... and it's getting worse-

Good for you man! That Oxycotin is serious stuff. Potent, addictive and etc. I'd not ever take an Oxy pill, ever.

You and Coyote make great points.

Really, who doesn't know someone who has been hooked on pain killers?

I don't pay attention to the pill abuse world - but I do know at one time, likely still current, that Oxy was thee most hardcore. It's no joke.

I think I'd venture to endure the pain too as opposed to taking it.