Doping and drug testing: Anti-doping work must be transparent and adhere to good scientific practices to ensure public trust

Erik Boye; Tore Skotland; Bjarne Østerud; Jon Nissen-Meyer

doi:10.15252/embr.201643540

Doping and drug testing: Anti-doping work must be transparent and adhere to good scientific practices to ensure public trust

EMBO Rep. 2017 Mar;18(3):351-354. doi: 10.15252/embr.201643540. Epub 2017 Feb 6.

Authors

Erik Boye^{1

2}, Tore Skotland^{1

3}, Bjarne Østerud⁴, Jon Nissen-Meyer²

Affiliations

¹ Institute for Cancer Research, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway.
² Department of Biosciences, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway.
³ Centre for Cancer Biomedicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway.
⁴ Institute for Medical Biology, UiT, The Norwegian Arctic University, Tromsø, Norway.

Abstract

Controversial decisions to ban athletes and the Russian doping scandal have raised doubts about the reliability of doping controls in professional sports. To ensure fairness and due process, doping tests must be transparent and adhere to the best scientific standards.

MeSH terms

Adult
Athletes
Chemistry Techniques, Analytical / ethics*
Chemistry Techniques, Analytical / instrumentation
Chemistry Techniques, Analytical / standards
Doping in Sports / prevention & control*
Female
Humans
Male
Reproducibility of Results
Sensitivity and Specificity
Substance Abuse Detection / ethics*
Substance Abuse Detection / instrumentation
Substance Abuse Detection / methods
Trust