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- From: les@SAIL.Stanford.edu (Les Earnest)
- Subject: Re: Cyling and Doping
- In-Reply-To: bhilden@bigriver.Eng.Sun.COM's message of 22 Dec 1992 21:18:05 GMT
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- Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University
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- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 00:10:04 GMT
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- Bruce Hildenbrand writes:
- I agree with Jim's comments that all performance enhancing drugs should
- be banned and there should be no quantitative limit.
-
- I suspect that Bruce didn't really mean to say this, but if he did, we
- part company here. There is absolutely no point in banning
- performance enhancing drugs that are not dangerous.
-
- Unfortunately, there are some drugs that make this difficult to do.
- Steroids are a good example. At this point in time, it is very
- difficult to detect the difference between steroids that naturally
- occur in the body and those injected with a hypodermic(or taken
- orally or whatever).
-
- This is a problem only for testosterone and epitestosterone, which is
- why they have been given quantitative limits. Performance enhancing
- steroids other than testosterone are different from natural substances
- and are readily detectable.
-
- The same is true for EPO, which is basically a recombinant DNA manufactured
- hormone that looks and feels just like the real thing. Detection is just
- about impossible until the normally healthy 29 year-old dies of a heart
- attack because his blood has the cosistency of molasses.
-
- I understand that there is now a test that works in some cases.
-
- I think Jim has raised an interesting point that may not be very easy
- to answer.
-
- I disagree for the reasons given above.
-
- (From a non-MD non-lawyer.)
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