Tiger Woods wasn’t lying about not drinking when he was pulled over in May, but he didn’t tell the entire truth about what he was taking.
When Tiger Woods was arrested on suspicion of DUI this spring, he was partially vindicated when it turned out he hadn’t been drinking alcohol. What Woods told police was that his intoxicated state was due to Vicodin and Xanax that he had been prescribed after his latest back surgery a month before.
It turns out that was only part of the story. ESPN acquired a copy of Woods’ toxicology report, available now that the golfer is no longer part of an active criminal case, and found that he had five drugs in his system when he was pulled over.
Along with Vicodin and Xanax, Woods had hydromorphone, another painkiller that goes by the brand name Dilaudid; Zolpidem, the sleep aid more popularly known by the brand name Ambien; and THC, the active ingredient in marijuana. While Woods could have been prescribed all five drugs — even marijuana, which is legal for medicinal purposes in Florida — ESPN’s reporters did not know whether he had valid prescriptions for all of them.
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It seems particularly strange for Woods to be on both Vicodin and Dilaudid at the same time since both are opioid painkillers, though of course two different physicians could have written scrips for Woods without the knowledge that he was taking the other.
Woods completed treatment for his reliance on prescription drugs this summer, and a recent statement suggested that he had attempted to treat both back pain and sleep issues on his own. As the toxicology report shows, that was probably indeed the case, so here’s hoping he doesn’t fall back into those habits again.