AUSTRALIAN SPORTS DRUG MEDICAL
ADVISORY COMMITTEE

Therapeutic approvals for prohibited substances

ASDMAC operates as the Australian Therapeutic Use Exemption Committee, providing approval for therapeutic use of prohibited substances to certain athletes if:

  • their national sporting organisation’s anti-doping policy allows for, or permits, the athlete to seek approval to use a medication prohibited in sport for a legitimate therapeutic purpose
  • there is no alternative and permitted therapeutic substance available that could be prescribed
    to treat the athlete’s medical condition, and
  • there is no evidence that the athlete will gain a performance enhancement effect by using the substance.

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