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Brett Favre Reveals Rehab Stints, Addiction To Painkillers During NFL Career

Brett Favre may have had an illustrious career as an NFL quarterback, but it wasn’t until this week that he revealed some of the medical issues he struggled with during that time.Brett Favre Confesses Health IssuesThe 48-year-old Hall of Fame star told Sports Illustrated on Monday that while playing for the Green Bay Packers in 1995 — the year he won the NFL MVP Award — he took large doses of painkillers like Vicodin.“I took 14 Vicodin, yes, one time. I was getting an hour or two of sleep many nights. Maybe 30 minutes of quality sleep. I was the MVP on a pain-pill buzz,” Favre told Sports Illu…