Anti-obesity drug is off limits

Essendon's defence to ASADA has suffered a blow. Picture: Wayne Ludbey Source: Herald Sun

David McArthur cartoon. Macca cartoon. WADA official tells a Dons official 'I don't care if you've got a letter from a doctor. Essendon. Drugs.

ANTI-doping agencies have dealt a body blow to Essendon's defence of AOD-9604 as a permitted drug.

The World Anti-Doping Agency and Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority yesterday declared the anti-obesity substance off limits for athletes in any circumstances.

The Bombers had grown increasingly confident they could use a loophole to escape sanction if players were charged with doping.

The Therapeutic Drugs Administration this week confirmed it had not given approval for AOD-9604, but said "several other exemptions exist that could allow legal supply of AOD-9604".

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But both ASADA and WADA yesterday told the Herald Sun there were no loopholes, justifications or ways around the use of AOD-9604, officially banned in January 2011.

The bodies were asked if legal approval for a licensed pharmacist to make the drug would override the WADA prohibition.

"It is prohibited in all circumstances," WADA communications director Julie Masse said. "AOD-9604 is a prohibited substance that falls under the S0 category of the Prohibited List."

ASADA said while therapeutic-use exemptions for athletes were available in limited cases, AOD-9604 was not one.

"Substances falling under the S0 category are prohibited at all times (in and out of competition)," it stated. "Given substances under S0 do not have current approval by any governmental regulatory health authority for human therapeutic use, no TUE (Therapeutic Use Exemption) would be granted under any circumstances."

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Despite the Herald Sun yesterday revealing details of Essendon's consent forms - which listed weekly injections of AOD-9604 - the club said it did not prove any player used the substance.

Sports medico Andrew Garnham, who helped write the Ziggy Switkowski report into the club's "irregular practices", said this week there were "grey areas" surrounding approval for the substance.

"There are legal avenues people continue to pursue (for AOD-9604). It may end up being used as an entirely legitimate nutritional substance," he said.

"Pharmaceutical companies will say there are drugs which appear to have potential but never go on beyond an early development phase, so this means the whole process of interpreting data and how things can be categorised under the WADA list is difficult and subject to interpretation."

- with Jon Ralph

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