Łukasz Sobczak, Krzysztof Goryński

Drugs in (Polish) pharmacies and the issue of doping in sports
2018-04-06

It is safe to assume that most of the pharmacists follow occasionally or regularly various sporting events. Probably every one of us knows about pharmacological doping. But who thought – how many of those prohibited substances could be found in a pharmacy?

For that reason, an insightful analysis of World Anti-Doping Agency’s testing figures was conducted. Obtained figures were then compared with Register of Medicinal Products (Polish) and presented in a comprehensive table, followed by brief description of selected drugs to bring reader a better understanding of benefits from their illicit usage. As a result, more than 3500 of doping cases is associated with 56 various active pharmaceutical ingredients available for patients, including several OTC products.

Finally, even as brief dip into subject as a lecture of this article could give a different insight at medications dispensed from drugstores, of which many are in fact also doping agents.

Keywords: pharmacy, doping in sports, drugs, prohibited substances

© Farm Pol, 2018, 74(4): 199-205