Maybemaybenot wrote:
Testosterone (Androgel or others) is a prescription only medication. If Rupp was taking it without prescription then it was illegal.
Charming, but not true. Acquiring and using a prescribed drug outside its intended purpose is not some kind of punishable crime. Basically he violated an unenforceable, no penalty, law that no district attorney will touch. Again, doping is not a crime in the U.S. It may be "against the law," but so what? Nobody is going to punish them.
If it were morphine, then it's a completely different set of rules.
Maybemaybenot wrote:
If a medical professional prescribed it to him for purposes other than treating a medical condition, then that also is illegal (same with prednisone).
Again, this is not anything that would trouble an MD. The Fuentes defense applies: "What athletes do is unhealthy. I use my training to make them healthy." And then there's the latitude given to MD's for off-label(?) use of prescription drugs.
There is no judicial/criminal penalty for doping in the U.S. None. Many of you apparently are new to this idea.