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Re: Psychology of drug test cheaters

Posted By: Andy Anderson
Date: Saturday, 23 September 2006, at 2:19 p.m.

In Response To: Re: Psychology of drug test cheaters (Al Wood)

In Pocatello at our Fitness Inc. meets since 1998 we have had four positive test results resulting in suspensions all of which have been served and lifted. However none of these lifters - three guys and one woman - have ever returned to our meets nor have they returend to lifting in the USAPL generally. Instead they have continued lifting in other federations.

In one case one of the tested lifters had gone to the local GNC the previous day and bought a number of drinks at $40 a pop that were advertized as being able to mask the effects of a drug test. They even promised a money-back guarantee (but who is going to try to claim it?). I know this because I knew the GNC store owner who sold them the masking drinks. The female who failed the drug test (with a T/E ratio of about 50) had won a championship jacket but neither she nor any of the other suspended lifters returned any of the trophies or jackets that they had won. The state record set by the female lifter in that meet was erased once it was learned she had filed the drug test.

In recent years we have had no further positive drug tests - however we also have had fewer lifters coming to our meets!

I think the competitor cheater mentality is no different than that of my students whom I have caught cheating and penalized. They rationalize their cheating by convincing themselves that others are doing it and getting away with it. Therefore they feel that they are being unfairly singled out or discriminated against when they do get caught. They seem to have little or no remorse - except for the fact that they did get caught. Nor do they have any sense of honor since they do not surrender their trophies.

Only two of the lifters who failed the drug tests here were from Idaho. That is out of a total base of around 170 Idaho lfiters who held USAPL memberships over a five year period.

ANdy

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