© 2002 British Journal of Sports Medicine
EDITORIAL
Drugs in sport
Do drug cheats ever prosper?
Centre for Sports Medicine Research and Education and the Brain research Institute, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
Correspondence to:
Correspondence to:
Dr McCrory, PO Box 93, Shoreham, Victoria 3916, Australia;
pmccrory@compuserve.com
The systems designed to eradicate drug use and cheating in sport need to be improved
Keywords: reviewing; authors; scientific writing
Recent observers of international sporting meetings may have been disheartened yet again by the ongoing battle against the use of banned drugs in sport. This is particularly so for sports medicine clinicians, who usually attend these athletic meetings voluntarily and may be inadvertently brought into these controversial matters.
Often a team doctor is asked to chaperone an athlete during a drug test or provide information to the testing authorities about recent prescribed medication. The media often fails to see a distinction in the roles of medical staff, and, if an athlete tests positive to a banned agent, then the team medical staff are often tarred with the same accusatory brush. As sports medicine clinicians, we follow the various rules and regulations that govern each sport from the drugs issue. If an agent is banned, then we should not administer it to an athlete. How then do we
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