Tiger Woods in jail: Woods jailed for DUI at 2pm but he wasn't drinking. What the hell was he on?

I'm sincerely glad you have no idea what you're talking about in terms of understanding what addiction is. I really mean that, it's something that I hope no one has to experience. But when someone sees what they perceive as a "great life", with all the indications of success, it's easy to assume they must be happy to at least some degree. But what you fail to realize is they're miserable human beings because of their addiction, and all those things you see as reasons to feel accomplished and content merely cover up their misery.

So no, anyone that knows what addiction is wouldn't voluntarily sign up for that.

I’m not sure what you’re trying to say. He has plenty of money to have a driver available 24/7.

He went to the wrong club.

And the guy is intelligent, but made poor life decisions. Lots of temptation comes along with fame and wealth.

Sorry about your teammate.

I was a competitive runner from age 15 until about 40. After 40, I tried to stay fit including with road bicycling. In 2010, I had a bone-breaking crash that required about 6.5 hours of surgery to repair (I don't bicycle anymore and do other things for fitness). I was given Oxycontin to take 10 mg doses four times a day. This was a few years into the opioid epidemic and I was fearful of becoming an addict. Instead of taking the instructed four doses per day, I halved that and just took a pill at bedtime and another sometime during the night. This allowed me to sleep comfortably. I might have avoided addiction even on four doses per day, but I think my willingness to forego relief might have improved my chances.

Interestingly to me, the Oxycontin did not so much relieve pain as it gave me a sense of happiness, of euphoria.

I'm in my 60s now, healthy as far as I know, and take no prescription drugs regularly. I do apply Minoxidil to my thinning scalp to retain what hair I have left. I'm considering even doing without that.

I did, a few years ago during the Covid years, have an anaphylactic reaction to a prescription cough medicine - benzonatate - that I reluctantly accepted to take. I bit into a capsule that should not have been chewed as the dosage was intended to be released over time. My tongue swelled and I thought I might even have to punch a hole in my throat to stay alive. Luckily, it didn't come to that and I lived to tell this tale. The pill bottle and user instructions should have been clearer. The would-be cure was worse than the disease - a bad cough.

Wouldn’t it have better to advise him get a driver?

I'd guess that the issue is:

Hiring a driver = admitting that he has a problem

As much as he clearly does not have "everything under control" in his life, he seems to want to present an image that he does, that he is disciplined and put together.

Hiring a driver begs the question, "Why do you need a driver?" You don't have to answer that or even have people wonder about it if you don't have one.

When you are worth 1.5 billion having a chauffeur is normal. But his mind it would have been viewed as an admission.

Sort of reduces the pressure on his son to measure up to dad.

So you take a breathalyzer (because you know yourself you haven't been drinking) yet refuse a urine test because it will expose what you're taking and why you keep doing these things.

None of this is very complicated. Tiger Woods has been a golfing science experiment since he was born, and you know what, it worked. It also completed wrecked him as a human being.

He's addicted to painkillers because he's still trying to practice and hit 1000 balls a day so he can get "back to the winners circle", because winning at a stupid game that is a pastime for most of us, is the only thing that makes him feel any worth or value as a human being. And all the idiots out there wetting their pants hoping he plays in the Masters again to satisfy their nostalgia are part of this too.

But he's now put other lives in danger at least twice doing this. It's a miracle he didn't kill either himself or anyone else the first time he went flying off the road at 85 mph (are you kidding me?) and you don't just roll a car going 20 mph in a residential neighborhood either. Seeing him standing there in the trees by his flipped car with his water-inflated upper body (wonder how he got that too btw) and his tight little shorts trying to emulate a 30 year old golf youtuber - doesn't get more tragic than that.

Cool story bro.

There are a lot of us who didn't dabble into drugs. We aren't faster than you but we're not much slower. It's called ethics. I don't think his story is cool in any way. No problem because the real science is weeding out the addicts. God knows...he always knows.

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Billionaire, but hang’em by his balls.👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼

Not sure which came first, the back surgery or the ruptured ACL, supposedly while jogging. He was in the midst of his Navy SEAL obsession and was lifting heavy weights and jogging in combat boots and training with the military.

Here's an injury timeline. Looks like the knee was early on compared to the back:

espn.com

Tiger Woods injury timeline

Can Woods return to golf dominance despite being riddled with ailments throughout his career? Take a journey through his injuries over the past 23 years as we wait to see if 2018 will be the year of Tiger.

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More complicated than that. Seems you would need at least three drivers to cover three shifts? Plus, others to cover vacations/holidays for the drivers? Any driver would have a real life too. If you were the only driver for Woods, when would you go for a run or eat or sleep? He would also have to provide nearby housing, something like a in-laws accessory dwelling on site because if he wanted to go to the store or something, why would he want to wait 15 minutes for someone to show up with a car. Needs to be multiple shifts of drivers that can be available within something like two minutes or you might as well call a taxi or Uber/Lyft. If he only leaves the house one time per day, that seems like an enormous expense, even for the wealthy.

Tiger, who grooves on the adulation of the masses, simply misunderstood those many yahoos who were yelling "Get in the HOLE!", as they always do, while he sped down the road. He thought they were urging him to "Get in the ROLL!" And he was only trying to act as the roll model he is to so many! No drug issues here!