The cost of popular prescription drugs may have just gone up. GlaxoSmithKline and Roche Holdings have entered agreements with the World Anti-Doping Agency offering company resources to help the anti-doping agency catch athletes who use performance-enhancing drugs (PEDs). If you think the cost of prescription drugs are increasing too much, you can now blame the World Anti-Doping Agency as one of the culprits. [Read more…]
Jul
13
WADA Wants Police to Help Them Catch Athletes Who Use Steroids
David Howman, the Director General of the World Anti-Doping Agency, has admitted that the agency’s anti-doping tests are ineffective against the “sophisticated doper”. WADA’s solution is to take advantage of police and governmental investigative agencies in their fight against dopers. Athletes can beat the anti-dopers, but why not see if they can beat the police too?
Jun
27
Customs Shares Information About Steroid Users with World Anti-Doping Agency
The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) continues to makes progress in its international lobbying efforts to convince international governments to share information about their country’s respective users of anabolic steroids. WADA has been a driving force behind the criminalization of doping and anabolic steroid possession around the world. It has succeeded, practically unopposed, in expanding the disastrous intenational war on drugs to include anabolic steroids and performance-enhancing drugs (PEDs). [Read more…]
Jun
24
World Anti-Doping Agency Falsely Accused Athletes of Using Steroids
The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) determined that the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has falsely accused athletes of using anabolic steroids due to errors by one of its formerly accredited worldwide laboratories. The Malaysia lab has since been removed from WADA’s list of accredited labs. [Read more…]
Jun
15
Clenbuterol Threshold Discussion Opens Door to Major Changes in WADA Anti-Doping Protocol
Bodybuilders have used clenbuterol for its well-known fat loss properties and its purported anabolic properties ever since Dan Duchaine recommended the substance over two decades ago. Clenbuterol is a well-known drug within the bodybuilding world but has remained largely unknown to the mainstream up until recently.
The news that Tour de France champion Alberto Contador tested positive for clenbuterol at the 2010 Tour de France added a new drug to the public’s lexicon of performance-enhancing drugs. [Read more…]
Jan
07
World Anti-Doping Agency Releases an iPhone App
The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has officially released an application that can be downloaded from Apple’s iPhone App Store. The application is simply a mobile-friendly version of the “List of Prohibited Substances and Methods” that appears on the orgnization’s website. [Read more…]
