Pharmaceutical companies provide information to anti-doping agencies

Nowadays many drug manufacturers are ready to cooperate with anti-doping agencies in their fight against usage of banned medications in sports. It sounds strange but this is the reality. In fact, if you review the fate of EPO, you can comprehend why pharmaceutical companies agree to support efforts of anti-doping officials. EPO is actually an effective remedy for treatment of anemia. A lot of individuals with anemia that have applied EPO have been treated. But what do you think while hearing about this medication? Almost any individual associates this remedy just with doping in sports. This product has been abused by Lance Armstrong that has cheated the whole world. Thus, EPO is associated just with lying, shame, etc. Looking at this condition, drug manufacturers try to “defend” their drugs from the similar fate. That’s why they cooperate with anti-doping officials.
However some drug manufacturers began to collaborate with anti-doping officials earlier, sometimes there were several problems between them. Anti-doping agencies criticized several pharmaceutical companies for their connections with doping.
Nowadays relations between anti-doping officials and drug manufacturers are better. Drug manufacturers share detailed information about new medications with anti-doping officials. It is valuable information for development of detection tests for these drugs. While anti-doping agencies find out how drugs are manufactured, how they pass into body, how they work in the body, they can introduce more effectual tests for these medicines.
For example, the drug manufacturer Roche that introduced the drug CERA helped anti-doping officers to develop a detection test for it. Later other drug manufacturers followed the example of Roche. The drug manufacturer GlaxoSmithKline went so far, as it sponsored an anti-doping lab during the 2012 Olympics.
While relations between anti-doping officials and big pharmaceutical companies become stronger, smaller pharmaceutical companies started to cooperate with anti-doping officials too. While previously drug manufacturers haven’t wanted to discuss about their links to anti-doping officers publicly, nowadays they don’t fear to announce about this condition.