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Originally Posted by Cannon Shell
Admitting that the "authorities" ie vets and chemists, are totally lost in trying to combat illegal drugs is not going to happen from a vet. It is the basic problem in solving the issue. Similarily the way the drugs that the BALCO guys were using were found out was by someone ratting them out and sending the authorities a sample. Even Dr. Caitlin admitted that they would have likely never found "the clear" or "the cream" through traditional testing methods and that guy is borderline insane. While "cheating" is not nearly as widespread as thought and most positive tests are not really relevant to performance the idea that there aren't things being done beyond the scope of the regulators is frightenly naive.
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I meant to say something about the bolded earlier.. When most positive tests are not really related to performance enhancers, that is more proof that the performance enhancing substances are always one step ahead of the testers... or they would get caught more often. Barn raids are what got the snake venom - not drug testing. Of course not everyone is cheating... but you notice patterns to get a good idea of who is... and unfortunately great clean trainers will get caught in that category sometimes when its not deserved... just like great clean baseball players will get the label unfairly.