[2][3][4] In 2017, the Australian and New Zealand Sports Law Journal referred to the abuse of TUEs as “The Legal Dope”.
The Journal of Legal Medicine quotes Dr. Johnny Benjamin, a medical journalist, as stating that in regards to TUEs in mixed martial arts, “TRT is far too easily abused”.
[7] In 2016, Russian cyberespionage group Fancy Bear disclosed information about TUEs granted to more than 100 Olympic athletes from over 20 countries, raising concerns over the misuse of TUEs for cheating,[8] including Bradley Wiggins using the corticosteroid triamcinolone acetonide in 2011, 2012, and 2013.
Adderall pills were permitted by Major League Baseball and 85% of players used them as performance enhancing drugs[11] until 2006.
In addition to steroids, insulin is a concern for cheating with TUEs. As the Cycling Independent Reform Commission’s 2015 report to the president states, “One team doctor stated that he believed the TUE system had been regularly abused, particularly as previously mentioned, in the area of corticoids.