Why cocaine is considered performance-enhancing for athletes, and why it matters when the athlete took it
- Written by Nial Wheate, Associate Professor of the School of Pharmacy, University of Sydney
Australian Rules Football and illicit drugs have been in the media for all the wrong reasons recently.
Last year a Melbourne Demons player, Joel Smith, and two Sydney Swans AFLW players were caught with cocaine.
And added on top of all that is a claim tabled in federal parliament that clubs have been protecting players from getting caught.
When it...