Tramadol is a SYNTHETIC opioid commonly used in lieu of aspirin and nsaids as a pain reliever. The base 50 mg tablet is about the strength of baby aspirin WITHOUT the digestive side effects and DAMAGE! I have been taking it for years, prescribed by VA. Several years ago the government decided it should be listed as a narcotic and mine, which had been delivered by mail, had to be delivered by UPS - at a significant addition cost to the taxpayers. 

If Dallas knowingly fed his dogs a banned substance - his bad. If his Vet fed it to them without Dallas's knowledge is the another question.

Bottom line, the banning of Tramadol is without merit and the board acted without adequate knowledge, just as the media abuses the opioid crisis.