Should countries allow companies to reverse engineer and sell generic drugs to keep their populations healthy at a lower cost?
The nagging issue of drug cheats won’t go away, but truly extraordinary athletes don’t need drugs to win.
Criminalisation of many drugs of abuse has done little to deter their use. Recent estimates tell us nearly one in 20 individuals aged between 15 and 64 are experimenting with illicit drug use worldwide.
From a drug-use control perspective, the 2012 London Olympic Games (LOG) will be the “biggest ever”. Since the Ben Johnson…
Years of tough restrictions on doping appear to be bearing fruit, with fewer scandals every time the Olympics are held. In Athens in 2004 26 athletes were caught; in Beijing in 2008, only 14 athletes and 6 horses. However, this may mean that athletes are just outsmarting the IOC.