By 1982, the International Olympic Council had developed a test for the detection of excess levels of testosterone in athletes known as Testosterone. Epitestosterone test. In this test levels of testosterone VS, epitestosterone is measured and if the testosterone level is 6x that of the epitestosterone level, it can safely be concluded that some form of testosterone has been used by the athlete. This is because testosterone is commonly no more than 6x the natural level of epitestosterone found naturally in the body. Thus if there were more than that ratio it was not naturally occurring in all probability.
The IOC was as usual one step behind the athletes. The GDR had already done a study on their athletes using a form of testosterone that would leave the body quickly & thus they would be ready for the IOC test within three days of their last injection. They then developed a protocol to allow their athletes to continue steroid use, ceasing it only long enough to pass the drug test. In addition, the German firm “Jenapharm” had been supplying the government with steroids for their athletes. Developed an epitestosterone product to administer to athletes to bring the ratio back to normal without discontinuing steroid use.
Their doping methods were so advanced however that they remained undetected for many years, until late in 1989 when the information was leaked to the Western media about a government-sponsored program of systematic anabolic steroid administration and concealment. Eventually, in the early 1990s, the Germans had finally gotten caught, and the ensuing scandal helped give anabolic steroids the bad reputation they have ever since. Ironically it was also in the early 1990s that anabolic steroids had started to be used by the medical community to improve survival rates of AIDS and Cancer patients when it was discovered that loss of lean body mass was associated with increased mortality rates respectively to those diseases.
A similar story was being played out in the United States at about that same time before 1988, steroids were only prescription drugs, as classified by the FDA (Food and Drug Administration) FDA determines which drugs will be classified as over-the-counter versus those which will only be available through prescription. At this time the Federal Food Drug and Cosmetic Act. Was invoked to restrict the access of steroids making them available only by precipitation.
They were still not controlled sustenance at this time, however. Controlled sustenance is more firmly regulated than uncontrolled prescription drugs. As an example, contact lenses can only be legally pouched with a prescription but they are not rolled per se. This stricter control of steroids created a vastly more intense examination of the doctors prescribing them and of course more harsh penalties for wrongful dispensing.
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