Posted by shellie on September 27, 2000, at 21:32:51
In reply to Olympics and Meds, posted by Noa on September 27, 2000, at 11:38:57
> Would all psychiatric medications be illegal for an olympic athlete?
It seems as if antidepressants are fine (i.e., not on any lists). Stimulents and sedatives would be the main problem. But if someone was ADD, they could generally take stimulents, just not for a certain number of hours before the games, because stimulents have such a short half-life.
Sedatives are banned because of sports like archery--sports in which calmness would be an asset. There again, sedatives have a short half-life so they are really just testing for drugs taken in the hours just before the competition.
So I think basically, all of us could be okay.
Noa, are you thinking of going for the gold in 2004? Shellie
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