Anti-doping programs seek to preserve what is intrinsically
valuable about sport. Anti-Doping Rules, like Competition rules,
are sport rules governing the conditions under which sport is
played. Athletes accept these rules as a condition of participation.
- World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA)
Anti-Doping Rules || Conditions
of Membership || Sports
Supplements || Therapeutic
Use Exception (TUE)
INBA Full Drug Policy || 2008 List
of Prohibited Substances || Drug
Testing Procedures ||
Introduction
The purpose of this information
is to clearly outline the conditions and responsibilities of
an INBA Member in relation to our Drug Policy. We define what
is considered a drug violation, how the drug policy and testing process
functions and what to do if your health requires your doctor to
prescribe a banned drug (for a legitimate medical reason).
The corner stone behind the
success of the INBA has been the resilience of our competitor's
ethics. Our competitors chose the INBA because they value the
concept of 'fair play', refuse to take drugs, have an awareness
of the harmful effects of drug use and support the INBA's stringent
drug testing and Doping Policy. Since our first contest in 1991,
the INBA has contracted the accredited WADA (and formerly IOC)
drug testing body, the Australian Sports Anti-Drug Authority (ASADA).
Our 17-year history with ASADA, an independent government agency, demonstrates
our serious intent and endeavour to keep Natural Bodybuilding
drug free and use the highest world standard available in drug
detection.
The INBA enforces drug
testing on the day of the contest as well as between contests.
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to read the testing procedure. Drug testing at the event and
whom is tested, is usually under the control of the Australian
Sport Anti-Drug Authority (ASADA). Obviously, competitors who display
characteristics associated with drug use will be targeted
as well as top place getters. Between contests, INBA athletes
are subject to our 'no notice' Random Drug Testing Program (RDTP).
Testing is again conducted by ASADA. Each member supplies the
INBA with an Athlete Information Form outlining their usual
place and time of training as well as home and work details.
ASADA can arrive 'without notice' at a member's training location,
home or work and notify them a urine sample must be collected.
In 1999, the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA)
was formed to take over the position and role the IOC played
as the drug authority in sport. Since this time WADA has comprehensively
rewritten the Doping substances, standards and protocols for
sporting bodies, which are now referred to as the Code.
On January 1st 2004 the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) authority
came into force. As such, each Country and Sporting group must
be a signatory of WADA to be able
to compete in the Olympic Games. The aim of WADA is to
implement a Doping Policy that is standardised across all sports
and all Countries. Furthermore all signatories uphold sanctions
imposed by any WADA signatory; therefore a banned athlete, for
the duration of the ban, cannot compete in another sport. The
INBA has adapted the new WADA initiatives and our sanctions will be recognised by other WADA signatory sports. As such INBA Natural
athletes are subject to the same doping rules, procedures and sanctions
as athletes that participate in an Olympic sport, and in most cases, voliations of the drug policy are heard by the Court of Arbitation for Sport (CAS) in Sydney.
A list of the 2007 banned substances can be viewed by
clicking WADA
Code of Prohibited Substances. Drugs are listed by chemical
name, not commercial name. As example, the anabolic steroid
dianabol appears under its chemical name methandrostenolone.
As a guideline: never take a substance of a chemical
nature or containing an unknown ingredient without considering
and checking if it may be a prohibited substance. If
in doubt phone the ASADA Hotline: 1 800 02 05 06.
You may wish to enquire with ASADA about their publication titled,
Drugs in Sport Handbook. The INBA take a hard line with those who
use drugs because competitors have a choice to compete with
other bodybuilding organisations that do not drug test.
INBA
Anti-Doping Rules (Summarised)
Doping is defined as the occurrence of one
or more of these anti-doping rule violations. The full INBA
Doping Policy can be viewed by clicking the link at the top
of the page. These Anti-Doping Rules are in furtherance of INBA's
continuing efforts to eradicate doping in the sport of Natural
Bodybuilding. Note: Athlete admissions are
treated in accordance as evidence of a Doping rule violation.
1. The presence of a Prohibited Substance
in an Athlete's bodily Specimen.
It is each Athletes personal duty to ensure that no Prohibited
Substance enters his or her body. Accordingly, it is not necessary
that intent, fault, negligence or knowing Use on the Athletes
part be demonstrated in order to establish an anti-doping violation.
2. Use or Attempted Use of a Prohibited
Substance or a Prohibited Method.
Defined as the application, ingestion, injection or consumption
by any means whatsoever of any Prohibited Substance or Prohibited
Method. The success or failure of the Use
of a Prohibited Substance or Prohibited Method is not material.
It is sufficient that the Prohibited Substance or Prohibited
Method was Used or Attempted to be Used for an anti-doping rule
violation to be committed.
3. Refusing, or failing without compelling
justification, to submit to Sample collection or otherwise evading
Sample collection.
4. Violation of the requirements regarding
Athlete availability for Between-Competition Testing including
failure to provide required whereabouts information.
5. Tampering, or Attempting to tamper,
with any part of Doping Control.
6. Possession of Prohibited Substances
and Methods.
Possession by an Athlete at any time or place of a substance
that is prohibited or a Prohibited Method unless the Athlete
establishes that the Possession is pursuant to a therapeutic
use exemption or other acceptable justification.
7. Trafficking in any Prohibited Substance
or Prohibited Method.
Administration or Attempted administration of a Prohibited Substance
or Prohibited Method to any Athlete, or assisting, encouraging,
aiding, abetting, covering up or any other type of complicity
involving an anti-doping rule violation or any Attempted violation.
8. Administration or Attempted administration of a Prohibited Substance or Prohibited Method to any Athlete, or assisting, encouraging, aiding, abetting, covering up or any other type of complicity involving an Anti-Doping Rule Violation or any Attempted violation.
Condition
of INBA Membership - Polygraph and Scientific Content Analysis
(SCAN)
The INBA insists athletes be a minimum of five
(5) years drug free to be eligible to compete as a "Natural" competitor.
The INBA may use Polygraph (lie detector) or SCAN testing, to
establish an athlete's five-year drug free status. At any time throughout your membership you may be
asked to sit and pass a polygraph or SCAN test as a Condition
of Membership. Admissions made by competitors during these tests
relating to their use of prohibited drugs are treated under
the INBA Doping Policy.
In addition to Polygraphing, the INBA brought the latest in 'truth deception'
to Australia - SCAN - Scientific Content Analysis. This
is a short questionnaire/answer technique currently used by
elite Agencies, such as the FBI. The INBA has commissioned a
FBI trained expert in deception to develop a SCAN program specifically
for natural bodybuilding and the INBA. The advantage of SCAN
is every competitor at a contest is screened, the analysis of
the questionnaire can tell us if a competitor is deceptive about
drug use and we can successfully profile members and more selectively
target competitors for future drug testing. The questionnaire
will be completed at Registration and analysed by a SCAN Investigator.
You may be required to sit an interview/polygraph/drug test based on your questionnaire
results.
Sport
Supplements
ASADA cannot determine the status of supplement
products in sport. Due to their multi-ingredient nature, supplements
are considered to present more risk to athletes than registered
pharmaceutical products. There is a risk that supplements may
contain impurities, such as ingredients that are not listed
on the label, which could cause a positive test. A 2001 International
Olympic Committee study reported nearly 15 percent of supplement
products tested (all non-Australian products) contained substances
not labelled that would result in a positive drug test.
It seems weekly, the latest development or
unpronounceable ingredient name in supplementation is on the
shelf for us to buy, but are they safe to use for drug-tested
athletes? Who should
be responsible for substantiating their claims and drug-free
status? Surely the manufacturer should be prepared to guarantee
that their products do what they claim, include only those ingredients
that appear on the label, and will not result in a positive
drug test for an athlete. Some manufacturers are prepared to
do this but many others do not. As with all drug-free and drug
tested athletes, the onus falls on your vigilance.
Steps to reduce the risk of inadvertently taking
a prohibited substance in the form of a Food/Sports Supplement:
1) Contact the company who makes or distributes
the product. The manufacturer/distributor should know what they
have made and whether it will pass a drug test. If they do not
know or they do not guarantee - better in writing - their product
will pass a drug test, do not use the product. End of story
- they have not done research into what they have in the
bottle.
2) If you do not get a satisfying answer and
you are still interested in using the product contact ASADA
Drugs in Sport Hotline on 1 800 02 05 06. However, you must
know ASADA (nor the INBA) were established to research or test
supplement companies new products. ASADA can really only offer
answers in relation to prescribed drugs because pharmaceutical
companies are legally bound to precisely manufacture what is
described in the ingredients, whereas supplement companies are
not.
3) If you do not get a satisfying answer from
ASADA either, don't risk your proud reputation on
an unknown ingredient or supplement without a drug free guarantee.
Therapeutic Use
The Code permits Athletes and their physicians
to apply for Therapeutic Use Exemptions (TUE) i.e. permission
to use, for therapeutic purposes, substances or methods contained
in the List of Prohibited Substances or Methods whose use is
otherwise prohibited. A TUE must be submitted when the athlete
joins (and every 12 months thereafter) or needs to commence
using the medication. In either situation, the application must
be submitted no less than 21 days before participating in an
event. A TUE form can be downloaded or apply to INBA Head Office
for a copy. There are two types of applications.
(1) An abbreviated or ATUE. Click here
to download. This completed form should be sent to INBA Head
Office.
This is solely for Athletes who require the legitimate use of:
- an inhaled asthma medication (formoterol, salbutamol,
salmeterol, terbutaline)
- a non-systemic glucocorticosteroid (anal, aural, dermatological,
inhalation, intra-articular, nasal and ophthalmological administration;
glucocorticosteroids are contained in some anti-inflammatory
preparations)
(2) A Standard TUE for all other medical situations.
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to download. This completed form should be sent to ASDMAC -
not the INBA.
In granting a standard Therapeutic Use Exemption,
ASDMAC will consider (amongst other) matters (i) The amount
of impairment to health if the prohibited substance or method
were to be withheld. (ii) The substance will produce no additional
enhancement other than that, which might be anticipated by the
return to a state of normal health following the treatment.
Note: The use of a prohibited substance to increase "low-normal"
levels of any endogenous hormone is not considered acceptable
therapeutic intervention. (iii) There is no reasonable therapeutic
alternative to the use of the otherwise prohibited substance.
To read or download the INBA Full Drug Policy (26 pages)
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here
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