Mike Tyson Reveals He Used Fentanyl 'A Few Times' During Boxing Career In The 90s

Mike Tyson took a bunch of beatings over the course of his legendary career and while these days he advocates for the use of marijuana to deal with pain he admitted at one point in his life, he relied on fentanyl. Tyson opened up on using the dangerous drug during a discussion on the "Katie Miller Podcast." At one point, he was asked about how he balances his advocacy for weed and being a role model and he responded with a simple, "I am who I am. "If I was a role model and an alcoholic and drank liquor, would I want them to do that? No, I wouldn't want them to do that. I just think from my perspective, using cannabis, that's safer than using alcohol, cocaine or anything from that perspective, or fentanyl. "If I was a role model and an alcoholic and drank liquor, would I want them to do that? No, I wouldn't want them to do that. I just think from my perspective, using cannabis, that's safer than using alcohol, cocaine or anything from that perspective, or fentanyl. "The synthetic opioid killed an estimated 48,422 people in the United States back in 2024, according to the CDC. In 2023 that number was 76,282.

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