The former player of the Major League Baseball Jose Canseco rejected to submit to a test for steroid, when he tried to return to the Mexican Baseball League. It was earlier reported that the “Tigres de Quintana” of Cancun provided him the 2nd chance and invited him to play.
This baseball player didn’t agree to submit to steroid testing which had to be done by officers of the Mexico’s National Commission for Physical Culture and Sport (CONADE). CONADE is government agency that manages Olympic sports in Mexico.
Cuauhtemoc Rodriguez Meza, the chief executive officer of this baseball team, stated that Jose Canseco would not be allowed to play for the team because he had acknowledged that he used banned medications.
Jose Canseco acknowledged that he was on testosterone replacement therapy under supervision of a health care provider in the US. He noticed that he was on TRT since 2008. This player was not surprised by the requirement to submit to urine analysis for steroids. He wrote on his Twitter account last month that the Minor League Baseball would have testing for prohibited products.
As it is known, any athlete may use steroids for TRT and compete, if he/she has received a therapeutic use exemption (TUE). A TUE permits intake of banned drugs, if it is supported by medical needs.
It is obvious that Jose Canseco has prescription from his physician that supports his condition which requires receiving TRT. But he hasn’t obtained a TUE for intake of testosterone.
Canseco has openly noted that he had a prescription from his physician to apply testosterone as a part of testosterone replacement therapy. He noted about this condition in a documentary in 2008. Jose Canseco noted that he discontinued administering illegal steroids and had hypogonadism that was provoked by steroids. Then his physician recommended him taking a testosterone gel in order to be relieved from adverse results of steroids.
As you see, Jose Canseco’s application of steroids is justified because he has medical support for usage. But since he hasn’t obtained a TUE, it is not clear whether he would play in the team that has steroid testing.
The CEO of “Tigres de Quintana” mentioned that he had known that Jose Canseco was receieving TRT but he invited him to play, just getting a TUE.
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