Drugs ban... Why?
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Morning all,
In amongst the obviously paltry pickings for Sports news at the moment, I noticed this story about Munster & Ireland rugby player James Cronin being banned for taking a performance enhancing substance.
OK, so far, so normal, but in his case, the ban was as a result of his taking a prescription to a pharmacy and being given the wrong drug by mistake. The fact that they've only banned him for a month (and that in the middle of the Coronavirus saga when there's no rugby happening anyway) suggests that they absolutely believe he truly wasn't at fault, so it just seems a bit odd to bother banning him at all?
In amongst the obviously paltry pickings for Sports news at the moment, I noticed this story about Munster & Ireland rugby player James Cronin being banned for taking a performance enhancing substance.
OK, so far, so normal, but in his case, the ban was as a result of his taking a prescription to a pharmacy and being given the wrong drug by mistake. The fact that they've only banned him for a month (and that in the middle of the Coronavirus saga when there's no rugby happening anyway) suggests that they absolutely believe he truly wasn't at fault, so it just seems a bit odd to bother banning him at all?
anonymous said:
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Far, far more frequently than you might think apparently!https://www.pharmacymagazine.co.uk/government-to-a...
Seems it was really not intentional.
"Prior to the match against Racing 92, Cronin had been unwell and had been prescribed antibiotics, however, the pharmacy dispensed medication to him which was intended for another customer."
It was a pharmacy dispensing error and the anti-doping violation was unintentional. He probably should have checked the packaging against whatever prescription he had, but oh well.
What did he take? Prednisone.
"Prednisone is a glucocorticoid medication mostly used to suppress the immune system and decrease inflammation in conditions such as asthma, COPD, and rheumatologic diseases." (Wikipedia)
"Prior to the match against Racing 92, Cronin had been unwell and had been prescribed antibiotics, however, the pharmacy dispensed medication to him which was intended for another customer."
It was a pharmacy dispensing error and the anti-doping violation was unintentional. He probably should have checked the packaging against whatever prescription he had, but oh well.
What did he take? Prednisone.
"Prednisone is a glucocorticoid medication mostly used to suppress the immune system and decrease inflammation in conditions such as asthma, COPD, and rheumatologic diseases." (Wikipedia)
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