Sooner linebacker “Austin Box had five different painkillers in his system when he died May 19,” the Oklahoman reports.
“It was the toxic combination of those prescription medicines that likely caused his death, according to an informational copy of a state toxicology report released Monday by his parents, Craig and Gail Box.”
His parents “don't doubt the state medical examiner's findings, but they find it hard to understand.”
“Although Austin had an injured back and experienced pain when he played and some discomfort at other times, he was not believed to be taking any painkillers prescribed to him by a doctor at the time of his death, his parents said.”
The report “listed the five drugs found in his body as oxymorphone, morphine, hydrocodone, hydromorphone and oxycodone with alprazolam.”
A full written statement from the Box family is linked here.
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