http://chimprefuge.com/2009/01/08/catching_up_with_sports_dopers/ A variegated compendium of bonobo scat. Wed, 16 May 2012 22:53:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://chimprefuge.com/2009/01/08/catching_up_with_sports_dopers/#comment-8271 Tue, 13 Jan 2009 17:46:10 +0000 http://bushwells.wordpress.com/2009/01/08/catching_up_with_sports_dopers/#comment-8271 Also confusingly, olanzapine (Zyprexa), an antipsychotic that does not bind GABA receptors, is a thienobenzodiazepine…

]]> http://chimprefuge.com/2009/01/08/catching_up_with_sports_dopers/#comment-8270 Fri, 09 Jan 2009 14:49:14 +0000 http://bushwells.wordpress.com/2009/01/08/catching_up_with_sports_dopers/#comment-8270 Modafinil is also being proposed for use as a cognitive enhancer.
And I love that they are calling the new drugs “benzothiazepines”. I’m sure they’re going to catch some high school athelete in trouble for popping his mother’s Valium, figuring he’s get increased cardiac capacity.

]]> http://chimprefuge.com/2009/01/08/catching_up_with_sports_dopers/#comment-8268 Thu, 08 Jan 2009 20:57:27 +0000 http://bushwells.wordpress.com/2009/01/08/catching_up_with_sports_dopers/#comment-8268 There are other legitmate uses for Modafinil than Narcolepsy. Classic narcolepts are also unliley to be doing sprint events given the problems with excitement and cataplexy.
The non-classic narcolepts or people with idiopathic hypersomnia, sleep apnea or shiftwork sleep disorder may well be on modafinil for legitimate reasons. International athletes could certainly make a convincing case that their jetlag may require modafinil treatment. It would be up to the appropriate authorities to make it clear that a presciption for this reason would still be illegtimate for the purposes of drug testing in sport (I hope they’ve done this already).

]]> http://chimprefuge.com/2009/01/08/catching_up_with_sports_dopers/#comment-8269 Thu, 08 Jan 2009 20:57:27 +0000 http://bushwells.wordpress.com/2009/01/08/catching_up_with_sports_dopers/#comment-8269 There are other legitmate uses for Modafinil than Narcolepsy. Classic narcolepts are also unliley to be doing sprint events given the problems with excitement and cataplexy.
The non-classic narcolepts or people with idiopathic hypersomnia, sleep apnea or shiftwork sleep disorder may well be on modafinil for legitimate reasons. International athletes could certainly make a convincing case that their jetlag may require modafinil treatment. It would be up to the appropriate authorities to make it clear that a presciption for this reason would still be illegtimate for the purposes of drug testing in sport (I hope they’ve done this already).

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