Leading Medical Ethics Academic Says Performance Enhancing Drugs Should Be Allowed at Safe Levels

September 18, 2014

(Herald Sun) – Oxford University Prof Julian Savulescu said AFL footballers should be allowed to take “safe levels’’ of performance enhancing drugs such as steroids, growth hormones and Erythropoietin (EPO) to help endurance and injury recovery. The leading international medical ethics academic said the AFL should pull out of WADA and start its own self-appointed body run by independent sports physicians who devise and monitor their own banned drug list.