Drug use

[NJH]

All I found this quick search engine online to confirm or not if any substance your taking is a banned or not:
http://www.globaldro.com/uk-en/

[carl_w]

No other comments so far, but for those of us taking a coktail of various prescription pills this is very useful. None of mine are on the banned list.

[NJH]

Same here Carl, I take a prescription nasal spray which contains a substance which would be banned if it wasn't taken in either a nasal spray or inhaler (much like Asthma drugs). This web tool they have produced is a really fast way to check em off. In the past it meant trawling through WADA lists and documents and trying to understand methods of use, the family or type of drug and all that stuff. Still worth pointing out however that for quite a few of these substances taken by inhaler or nasal spray there seems to still be a theoretical risk of failing a doping test, ISTR reading somewhere that something like 16 to 20 puffs of inhaler could do it but don't quote me on that!

[Dollyman1850]

Psudoephydrine is commonly found in hay fever remedies and used to treat rhinitis etc..
Technically on the banned list…and a good example of how easy it is to be at odds with the rules..

If you are taking any prescribed drugs then it is always good practise to consult your doc and check with MSA. In many cases wavers are granted for genuine medical use where sanctioned by a doctor.

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[NJH]

That is a good example as you can buy Sudafed (Pseudoephedrine) over the counter, its on the banned list:
https://wada-main-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/resources/...

ISTR there was a famous/infamous case in the past of an Athelete at the Olympics failing a doping control for Pseudoephedrine in which he claimed he took a decongestant.

[Zumbruk]

Sudafed doesn't contain pseudoephidrine any more, since it was being used as feedstock for the illegal manufacture of methamphetamine. Sudafed now contains oxymetazoline. I have no idea if this is a banned substance in its own right.

[majordad]

Ask a cyclist, or post it on the cylcle thread.

[itdontgo]

majordad said:

Ask a cyclist, or post it on the cylcle thread.

I'll ask that bloke in the office he comes to work on a bike he'll know all about it