“Of the 400 days of [big league] service time I had, I probably smoked on 150 of them,” he told me. “I think baseball has had a [drug] problem for its entire life,” one active player told me this week. I asked four players, two active and two recently retired, to estimate cocaine and marijuana use in the league. According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, 0.6 percent of Americans aged 12 or older were cocaine users as of 2014. One MLB player on pressure in the leagueBallplayers are naturally at risk to develop those addictions.

Source: Huffington Post July 28, 2017 16:16 UTC