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Wednesday 21 June 2017

Agent: Tiger Woods in a clinic for handling pain medications

By DOUG FERGUSON
AP Golf Writer
Tiger Woods has checked
into a clinic to get help
dealing with prescription
medication for pain and
a sleep disorder, and his
agent is not sure how long
he will stay.
Mark Steinberg of Excel
Sports Management said
Tuesday he could not dis-
close the location of the in-
patient treatment. He said
pain medication at times
was the only way Woods
could get up and moving
during the toughest days
of recovery following four
back surgeries.
“I’m proud of him,” Stein-
berg said. “He’s going
to get himself right to be
able to essentially lead a
healthy lifestyle.”
Woods was arrested on
a DUI charge in the early
hours of Memorial Day
when police in Jupiter,
Florida, found him asleep
behind the wheel of his
slightly damaged car,
which was parked awk-
wardly to the side of the
road about 15 miles from
his house, headed the op-
posite direction.
In this March 20, 2017, file photo, golfer Tiger Woods prepares to
sign copies of his new book at a book signing in New York.
Associated Press

This is at least the second he was or where he was
time that Woods has sought going. Woods told police
in-patient treatment. He he was on several prescrip-
was in a Mississippi clinic for tions. He failed every field
Located in the Riu Antilles Resort (Formerly the Westin Resort) 45 days in early 2010 when sobriety test, though he re-
FREE TRANSPORTATION TO THE CASINO FROM ALL his personal life collapsed corded a 0.00 on a breath
HIGH RISE AND LOW RISE HOTELS AND TIMESHARES. over multiple extramarital test after he was taken to
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Woods had his fourth knee hol was not involved.
LIVE POKER surgery after winning the Woods also provided urine
2008 U.S. Open at Torrey samples. The results of those
Pines for his 14th major. tests are not available.
GAMES START 8 PM TO THE WEE HOURS Starting in 2013, however, Jupiter Police spokesman
his back has been the pri- Adam Brown said Tues-
mary source of his injuries. day that toxicology results
1-2.....2-5......5-5 1-3.....2-5......5-5 He has had four surgeries won’t be released be-
$100 HIGH HAND BONUSES EVERY HOUR on his back starting in the cause they are part of an
spring of 2014, the most active criminal investiga-
OVER $20,000 PER WEEK GIVEN OUT IN HIGH HAND BONUSES recent fusion surgery two tion. Nicole Lunsford, a re-
CRAPS months ago. cords specialist at the po-
“He’s been in just immense lice department, said in an
ONLY CASINO IN ARUBA TO OFFER 3, 4 & 5 TIME ODDS pain for so very long that email that they were being
taking prescribed medica-
withheld “per our town le-
tion was a must just to be gal counsel.”
SPORTSBOOK able to get up and move,” An arrest affidavit listed
four medications, includ-
Steinberg said. But, he add-
LIVE SIMULCAST OF ALL MAJOR TRACKS ed, “I don’t think it’s fair to ing Vicodin, that Woods
say there is an addiction.”
told police he was taking.
THROUGHOBRED AND HARNESS When he was arrested, In another police report
Woods’ speech was slurred that previously had been
and he was not sure where redacted, q