ADD Drug Use Soars in Baseball

At a congressional meeting Tuesday, Major League Baseball officials and government leaders gathered to discuss doping in baseball. Among the more surprising discoveries was the information that "therapeutic use exemptions" for ADD-related drugs had more than quadrupled in just one year.

"'This demands an explanation. There's something fundamentally wrong [with] them going from 28 [exemptions] to 103,' said Dr. Gary Wadler, chairman of committee that determines the World Anti-Doping Agency's banned-substances list. 'If we had this percentage increase in the general population, it would be on the evening news as a national epidemic. It's an outrageous number.'"

The Therapeutic Use Exemptions (TUE) clause allows players to fill prescriptions for medications that are otherwise banned, if approved by both a physician and an independent administrator. Wadler believes the 2006 ban on amphetamines is tied to the TUE increase.

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