KEEP COMING BACK –
Mar. 27, 2026 – Woods seems to be focused on his playing career and his injury rehab, but addiction is unrelenting. It’s time for Woods to address his biggest challenge. Every single person in Woods’s life should approach every single interaction with him with the understanding that he is an addict. It is the best thing they can do for him. It’s what he needs. It’s what his children deserve. It’s what everybody else who shares a road with him deserves, too.
In 2009, after Woods’s then-wife Elin Nordegren discovered evidence of infidelity, he fled and drove into a fire hydrant. When police found him, he was not coherent. Later, there would be reports that Woods had taken Vicodin and sleeping pills, but at the time, police did not treat the one-car accident as a possible DUI. In 2017, police arrested Woods when they found him asleep at the wheel. Woods said he had an “unexpected reaction” to mixing medications. He had Vicodin, Dilaudid, Xanax, Ambien and THC in his system. He entered an in-patient rehab facility for prescription medication addiction.
