Pharmacy Daily | Sports drug probe

THE Pharmacy Guild has urged a full investigation of allegations aired on the ABC’s Four Corners program which it says “have the potential to damage the good reputation of community pharmacy in Australia”. The controversy surrounds an unnamed person on the program, described as a “Melbourne compounding pharmacist,” who is alleged to have had a meeting with representatives of an AFL club and offered to make up “almost anything you ask me to” in order to illegally boost player performance. The Guild said that the notion of a pharmacist actively encouraging cheating in professional sport by using drugs “goes against everything that responsible pharmacists and the Guild stand for in terms of ethical practice, putting patient health outcomes first and complying with the law and professional standards.” Such rogue operators do a disservice to the high levels of trust in the pharmacy profession, the Guild continued, calling on the relevant authorities including the Pharmacy Board of Australia to ensure that such behaviour is fully investigated and that “all necessary action is taken to stamp it out”.

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