Fremantle's Ryan Crowley tests positive to banned substance

[Twodogs]

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Can appeal if he chooses to but risks a larger penalty.

What worked in his advantage was that it wasn't a prohibited performance enhancing substance.

It was methadone wasn't it? How does that get into the system of an AFL footballer? I can't imagine him waiting at the little hatch in the chemists to get dosed.

[Remi Moses]

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Freo are better off without Ryan Crowley.
Been a great warrior for them , but their midfield seems to perform better without him.

[1eyedog]

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It was methadone wasn't it? How does that get into the system of an AFL footballer? I can't imagine him waiting at the little hatch in the chemists to get dosed.

Was in a pain killer. They'll get him back in, gun tagger and they'll need him to look after Mitchell or Bont in the granny.

[Happy Days]

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Was in a pain killer. They'll get him back in, gun tagger and they'll need him to look after Mitchell or Bont in the granny.

"Pain killer"

[1eyedog]

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"Pain killer"

huh?

[Twodogs]

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Was in a pain killer. They'll get him back in, gun tagger and they'll need him to look after Mitchell or Bont in the granny.

But it's not the sort of thing you take by accident. It's a scheduled medicine that I had to jump through hoops and spend a couple of weeks in rehab to be prescribed. The pharmicist told me this morning that the only way to get it outside of being prescribed by a drug and alcohol doctor is to get it off the street.

[Axe Man]

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But it's not the sort of thing you take by accident. It's a scheduled medicine that I had to jump through hoops and spend a couple of weeks in rehab to be prescribed. The pharmicist told me this morning that the only way to get it outside of being prescribed by a drug and alcohol doctor is to get it off the street.

From the Age:

Fairfax has previously reported that the relevant banned substance in the Crowley case was methodone, and that the player told the tribunal in a one-day hearing this year that he did not know the drug was in the painkillers an allied health professional, not connected to Fremantle Football Club, gave him to help with back pain.

[Happy Days]

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huh?

Why does one usually take methadone?

As Twodogs said, it's not exactly a go-to prescribed painkiller.

[1eyedog]

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Why does one usually take methadone?

As Twodogs said, it's not exactly a go-to prescribed painkiller.

Isn't it a compound in codiene or isn't codiene a natural compound found in methadone? I can't remember...

[Twodogs]

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Why does one usually take methadone?

As Twodogs said, it's not exactly a go-to prescribed painkiller.

Its typically used by recovering addicts of opioids. Heroin mostly. But as an aside my pharmicist also said this morning that people who become addicted to codeine also are prescribed methadone.

[Happy Days]

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Its typically used by recovering addicts of opioids. Heroin mostly. But as an aside my pharmicist also said this morning that people who become addicted to codeine also are prescribed methadone.

Bingo.

There's more to this, I'm sure of it.

[Twodogs]

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I think the key question is What's a Allied Health Professional and why/how are they prescribing any substance at all that contains a scheduled substance that usually only prescribed by drug and alcohol doctors.

[1eyedog]

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Its typically used by recovering addicts of opioids. Heroin mostly. But as an aside my pharmicist also said this morning that people who become addicted to codeine also are prescribed methadone.

Exactly, I used to drive a mate who was recovering to the chemist every third day. I knew there was a codeine / meth connection but I couldn't remember what it was.

Bingo.

There's more to this, I'm sure of it.

I'm sure you are looking into it too much. If Crowley needs methadone as you're implying it means he's been on H, not just once or twice but many times and recently. You can't hide a H habit, you just can't.

[1eyedog]

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I think the key question is What's a Allied Health Professional and why/how are they prescribing any substance at all that contains a scheduled substance that usually only prescribed by drug and alcohol doctors.

A Dank?

[boydogs]

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I think the key question is What's a Allied Health Professional and why/how are they prescribing any substance at all that contains a scheduled substance that usually only prescribed by drug and alcohol doctors.

Or looking at it another way, why are they prescribing a substance banned under the WADA code to a professional athlete

Not that it matters, WADA don't care what the reason is if you've got the substance in your system. Saad got done for an unlabelled ingredient