Steroid policy changes (1 Viewer)

[trader jake]

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NFL steroid policy changes

Key changes to the steroid policy adopted by the NFL and its players' union Wednesday:

• Blood boosting substance EPO added to list of banned supstances. NFL will be only North American professional sports league to test for EPO.

• Players suspended for using performance-enhancing drugs will forfeit a prorated portion of their signing bonuses.

• Increase from seven to 10 of the number of players on each team randomly tested each week during the season. Also, the unpredictability of random testing during the season and offseason increased.

• All players now will be subject to random carbon isotope ratio testing, previously used only to confirm positive tests. Test used to detect doses of testosterone.

• The NFL agreed to a $500,000 grant to the UCLA Olympic testing laboratory and other researchers for further testing on HGH. The league also will establish a group to study issues related to HGH.

• The NFL Youth Football fund has approved a $1.2 million steroids education fund at the Center for Health Promotion Research at the Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU) in Portland, Ore.

It's a large step in the right direction.

 

[Mungo Burrows]

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NFL steroid policy changes

Key changes to the steroid policy adopted by the NFL and its players' union Wednesday:

• Blood boosting substance EPO added to list of banned supstances. NFL will be only North American professional sports league to test for EPO.

• Players suspended for using performance-enhancing drugs will forfeit a prorated portion of their signing bonuses.

• Increase from seven to 10 of the number of players on each team randomly tested each week during the season. Also, the unpredictability of random testing during the season and offseason increased.

• All players now will be subject to random carbon isotope ratio testing, previously used only to confirm positive tests. Test used to detect doses of testosterone.

• The NFL agreed to a $500,000 grant to the UCLA Olympic testing laboratory and other researchers for further testing on HGH. The league also will establish a group to study issues related to HGH.

• The NFL Youth Football fund has approved a $1.2 million steroids education fund at the Center for Health Promotion Research at the Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU) in Portland, Ore.

It's a large step in the right direction.

Damn. I was hoping they would make players ineligible for the pro bowl and other post-season honors too.

 

[thesurfshop19]

ESPN link

NFL steroid policy changes

Key changes to the steroid policy adopted by the NFL and its players' union Wednesday:

• Blood boosting substance EPO added to list of banned supstances. NFL will be only North American professional sports league to test for EPO.

• Players suspended for using performance-enhancing drugs will forfeit a prorated portion of their signing bonuses.

• Increase from seven to 10 of the number of players on each team randomly tested each week during the season. Also, the unpredictability of random testing during the season and offseason increased.

• All players now will be subject to random carbon isotope ratio testing, previously used only to confirm positive tests. Test used to detect doses of testosterone.

• The NFL agreed to a $500,000 grant to the UCLA Olympic testing laboratory and other researchers for further testing on HGH. The league also will establish a group to study issues related to HGH.

• The NFL Youth Football fund has approved a $1.2 million steroids education fund at the Center for Health Promotion Research at the Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU) in Portland, Ore.

It's a large step in the right direction.

Damn. I was hoping they would make players ineligible for the pro bowl and other post-season honors too.

Fans can sort of regulate the former, and the media can regulate the latter. (Not that I wouldn't love to see it in writing ....)

 

[Captain Spaulding]

I think if a player tests positive during the season, he should be banned from the field of play until all traces of steroids/HGH whatever illegal performance enhancing substance is out of his system. It is unfair to fans, players, coaches, owners that an illegally enhanced player is competing against clean players. Its also not fair to players on his same team (like a backup who might actually be better than the "steroid enhanced" player if both were clean. Thats my opinion.

 

[trader jake]

I agree with many who want more stringent penalties, but until the union and owners agree to some type of test for HGH there will continue to be a gaping hole in the NFL's substance abuse policy.

 

[Ditkaless Wonders]

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NFL steroid policy changes

Key changes to the steroid policy adopted by the NFL and its players' union Wednesday:

• Blood boosting substance EPO added to list of banned supstances. NFL will be only North American professional sports league to test for EPO.

• Players suspended for using performance-enhancing drugs will forfeit a prorated portion of their signing bonuses.

• Increase from seven to 10 of the number of players on each team randomly tested each week during the season. Also, the unpredictability of random testing during the season and offseason increased.

• All players now will be subject to random carbon isotope ratio testing, previously used only to confirm positive tests. Test used to detect doses of testosterone.

• The NFL agreed to a $500,000 grant to the UCLA Olympic testing laboratory and other researchers for further testing on HGH. The league also will establish a group to study issues related to HGH.

• The NFL Youth Football fund has approved a $1.2 million steroids education fund at the Center for Health Promotion Research at the Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU) in Portland, Ore.

It's a large step in the right direction.

It's a P.R. move. NFL players do not use EPO, endurance athletes do. They are trying to distract from the real issue, which is use of HGH. They could have chosen to test for it, they choose not to. Instead they try to posture that the testing just isn't there yet. The testing is there if they wanted to address the issue. I am not impressed that they threw out a few monetary bones for P.R. purposes. The money they threw out there to buy off criticism is less than the income from one Superbowl commercial. This is insulting if one is trying to get us to believe they truely want to address the issue.