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Non-steroidal and tissue-selective anabolic agents sold for performance enhancing effects

Non-steroidal and tissue-selective anabolic agents such as Selective Androgen Receptor Modulators (SARMs) are being sold on the Internet black market because of their performance enhancing characteristics, as per researchers from the German Sport University Cologne in Germany. It was revealed that one of the drugs sold on the Internet had the drug candidate Andarine, which suggests that anabolic agents are being sold freely on the web.

Complete findings of the study appeared in the latest issue of Drug Testing and Analysis published by Wiley-Blackwell.

From News-Medical.Net:

SARMs represent a promising class of therapeutics for the treatment of various diseases such as sarcopenia, osteoporosis, benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH), and cancer cachexia. While none of these agents have yet been approved for therapeutic use, SARMs are gaining popularity in the sports doping community because they are believed to provide the benefits of traditional anabolic/androgenic steroids such as testosterone with fewer unwanted side effects.

In 2008, the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) prohibited the use of SARMs in sports due to their potential for misuse. WADA closely cooperates with pharmaceutical and biotechnological companies, as well as medicine agencies and drug evaluation bodies on the issue of therapeutics being misused in sports. WADA’s preventive approach was validated with the recent finding of a commercially available, non-approved arylpropionamide-derived SARM termed Andarine.

It is important to note that this issue was recently addressed at the Conference of Parties to the International Convention against Doping in Sport, held on October 26-28, 2009 at the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization’s (UNESCO) headquarters in Paris.

John Fahey, WADA President, remarked that government agencies are required to adopt necessary laws and regulations for combating trafficking and sale of illegal substances to inhibit steroids in sporting events.