Here’s what WWE Medical Doctor Joseph Maroon had to say:
“We’ve become aware that [it] was becoming a very addictive type of drug. When combined with codeine, it can have the potency of heroin. It’s become nationally a significantly abused drug — 2.7 million American males and females have abused Soma — and it has significant addictive potential. Because some of the talent have used it in the past, we’ve decided there are other substitute drugs that [are] less addictive that are available.”
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