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Baseball Players Allowed to Use Testosterone and Amphetamines for Therapeutic Use
[January 11th, 2009] by Millard Baker
Dr. Bryan Smith, the administrator of the Major League Baseball (MLB) anti-doping program, published a report summarizing the positive doping test results from the 2008 anti-doping samples. The big news was not the number of doping protocol positives for steroids (only five) or amphetamines, but the number of therapeutic use exemptions (TUEs) that allow MLB players to use testosterone, Adderall, etc. Three players were presumably permitted to use testosterone because they were diagnosed with hypogonadism and 106 players were permitted to use stimulant drugs like Adderall because they were diagnosed with attention deficit disorder (ADD) (”Report: Amphetamines still in play in MLB,” January 9).
Meanwhile, 106 players filed paperwork with the league claiming to have ADD, excusing themselves from punishment if a laboratory encountered signs of Adderall in their samples. [...]
There were five positives for clobenzorex, the proper name for greenies, in this most recent sampling. Only five samples were positive for muscle-building drugs, including two positives for androstenedione and one each for the steroids nandrolone, stanozolol, and testosterone.
Other TUEs were issued for hypertension (3), hypogonadism (3), post-concussion syndrome (1) and metabolic myopathy (1).
Clearly, athletes should be given the same medical care available to the rest of the population. But the use of TUEs is controversial in drug-tested sports because many people question whether the athletes really need the medications for therapeutic reasons or are simply looking for a way to circumvent anti-doping rules.
Tags: adderall, baseball, testosterone
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