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The burden of pitching pills

By Darren Rovell
ESPN.com

Friday, November 19, 2004

Dorothy Hamill: "When I started skating at 8 years old, I thought I'd never experience the thrill of winning a medal. With all the great memories has come another thing I never thought I'd experience -- the pain of osteoarthritis." Voiceover: "Vioxx is here. ... With one little pill a day, Vioxx can provide 24-hour relief." Since the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's 1997 decision to permit pharmaceutical companies to market prescription drugs to the masses, scores of sports figures have sig ...

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