After hours drugs tests by ASADA

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Rumour has it that a Western Sydney doctor who has just been deregistered or disciplined for supplying performance enhancing drugs for non-medical reasons has had his books investigated by ASADA. They have what they believe to be a list of names of professional athletes that they think have been receiving performance enhancing drugs. However, they don't have anything more concrete to lay charges on anyone. However, they are going to go very hard over the next few months because of the information.

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A bit more info at:

http://www.smh.com.au/sport/sportcolumns/magnay/index.html

Wednesday August 23, 2006 - ASADA moves on records of doctor who prescribed steroids

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...and some more in yesterday's Sunday Telegraph

Steroids warning. Errant doctors on notice.
- Linda Silmalis (political writer)
Sunday Telegraph, 27 August 2006

The State’s medical watchdog has issued a warning to doctors against prescribing anabolic steroids to sportsmen or bodybuilders amid anecdotal evidence the practice is on the rise.

The warning from the NSW Medical Board follows an increase in notifications from pharmacists of doctors inappropriately prescribing the drugs.

The board’s medical director, Dr Allison Reid, said there were concerns some doctors could be being offered financial rewards to engage in the practice.

“There are always two or three every year, but we have a feeling there has been a bit of an escalation in the practice,” she said.

“There are severe consequences, and you would have to conclude there must be a reward incentive for doctors to take that risk.

“The implications for patients are well documented and any doctor who takes this risk is either naïve or getting some reward.”

Last year, six doctors were reprimanded or deregistered for prescribing offences.

The NSW Medical Tribunal last month struck off a doctor for handing out steroids to bodybuilders.

The Tribunal heard that Wallis Lam had given 23 patients anabolic/androgenic steroids and prescribed human growth hormone to five people.

In its latest newsletter to doctors, the board warns that doctors found prescribing anabolic steroids face deregistration. “Several doctors have recently been prosecuted and more cases are in the pipeline,” it said.

“Given the harm associated with the use of performance enhancing drugs, including death and serious, lifelong morbidity, doctors who ignore this advice do this at their peril.”

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The link to the actuall Wallis Lam story:

http://www.smh.com.au/news/sport/asada-moves-on-records-of-doctor-who-prescribed-steroids/2006/08/22/1156012543050.html