The SA EPO drug mule doctor or pharmacist should be prosecuted

[flymango]

why? i can buy online, and get dosage amounts and advice from many forums.

 

Good point. But somebody also stands behind an online marketing channel.

[dracs]

I agree with the OP in the sense that the source needs to be identified and if local pharmicisits and or doctors are involved harsh action needs to be taken. Yes it may be possible to get online etc, but reading some of the other threads around here about how easiliy doctors and pharmicisits are dishig this stuff out, it is probably just as plausible that DG and the boys are not having to try that hard and have some local help

Edited November 7, 2012 by dracs

[dracs]

why? i can buy online, and get dosage amounts and advice from many forums.

So your argument is because there are always ways to circumvent laws we shouldn't bother to try enforce them?

[Tumbleweed]

Is it only available from these 'official' sources

 

If you're really interested, I can have some delivered to your "office".

[Agteros]

EPO is a legal prescription drug with valid medical reasons for use. Not all sales are as PEDs.

The fact that it is banned by WADA does not mean it may not be used by anybody. It is out f bounds for sportspeople because there are people who abuse it for performance enhancing

[fandacious]

So your argument is because there are always ways to circumvent laws we shouldn't bother to try enforce them?

 

what law? there is no law against cheating in sport in SA. its not a criminal offence

[scotty]

Still wont help for me, cant make a mule into a race horse.

If you're really interested, I can have some delivered to your "office".

Bwa hahaha

[FrankTank]

History of EPO, development to blackmarket use in cycling & clinical care:

http://www.cyclingnews.com/features/armstrongs-fraud-paralleled-epo-makers-feud

[dracs]

what law? there is no law against cheating in sport in SA. its not a criminal offence

Correct but this thread is not about cheating sportspeople. There are laws against doctos prescribing scheduled drugs for inappropriate uses. There are also laws defining how controlled and scheduled drugs may be brought into the country. And there are certainly laws preventing pharmicists from providing controlled scheduled drugs without a valid prescription.

 

If any of the above are occurring (and it seems ALL are) then I would like some action taken against those responsible. not just the end user.

Edited November 7, 2012 by dracs

[fandacious]

Correct but this thread is not about cheating sportspeople. There are laws against doctos prescribing scheduled drugs for inappropriate uses. There are also laws defining how controlled and scheduled drugs may be brought into the country. And there are certainly laws preventing pharmicists from prividing controlled scheduled drugs without a valid prescription.

 

thats a far stretch for a burden of proof. good luck winning that in court...

[Lucky Fish]

EPO is a legal prescription drug with valid medical reasons for use. Not all sales are as PEDs.

The fact that it is banned by WADA does not mean it may not be used by anybody. It is out f bounds for sportspeople because there are people who abuse it for performance enhancing

 

Robox, Thank you, your informed opinion is enlightening! Many miss the point.

[dracs]

thats a far stretch for a burden of proof. good luck winning that in court...

OK you are right, its sounds like a drag lets not bother.

[dracs]

EPO is a legal prescription drug with valid medical reasons for use. Not all sales are as PEDs.

The fact that it is banned by WADA does not mean it may not be used by anybody. It is out f bounds for sportspeople because there are people who abuse it for performance enhancing

Valid reasons for use of EPO are quite limited and I don't believe there are any legitimate uses in a healthy person (though I stand to be corrected). Your argument applies better to the likes of test. and HGH.

[DJR]

Simply get the guilty ones to spill the beans on who their suppliers were! Confessing seems to be the new in-thing in pro-cycling anyway, especially if they are threatened with a bit of jailtime or financial ruin. Then take those suppliers to task, either through the courts or through their own professional bodies, if they turn out to be doctors or pharmacists.

 

(I doubt that the local supplier will turn out to have a name like Ferarri, much more likely to be Dr Cortina Big-Six.)

[GLuvsMtb]

I think if DG is totally transparent about how, who, where and why, the authorities may be more forgiving with punishment. The problem is that if this means that he may well be implicating team mates or others in the mix as well and will probably mean an end to some more careers. He clearly has been on the juice for some time, otherwise he would not have been so casual about competing after the tests were done in August. If this was an isolated incident and he got tested on 29 August he would surely have withdrawn from competition with some mystic illness until the results came out.

[Agteros]

Robox, Thank you, your informed opinion is enlightening! Many miss the point.

In the mean time, three witches were found peddling on their bikes. The hubbers mob decided not to stick framepumps in the spokes of their front wheels, but to rather kill them with micro-accusations, slander and baseless rumour...