{"id":151,"date":"2010-03-12T02:57:26","date_gmt":"2010-03-12T01:57:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bjsm\/?p=151"},"modified":"2010-03-10T03:06:03","modified_gmt":"2010-03-10T02:06:03","slug":"time-to-debate-the-cost-of-the-war-on-drugs-in-sport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bjsm\/2010\/03\/12\/time-to-debate-the-cost-of-the-war-on-drugs-in-sport\/","title":{"rendered":"Time to debate the cost of the war on drugs in sport?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know that it costs $US 3 million to catch one football player using anabolic steroids? The total budget for testing for drugs in sport clearly exceeds $US 250 million \u2013 it is probably closer to $US 500 million annually. That\u2019s a fair chunk of change. Good idea? Or is there a better way of spending all that money while still deterring drug use in sport. Not easy. Let us know what you think by <strong>emailing<\/strong> me via the BJSM Editorial Office: <strong>BJSM [at] bmjgroup [dot] com.<\/strong><!--TrendMD v2.4.8--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know that it costs $US 3 million to catch one football player using anabolic steroids? The total budget for testing for drugs in sport clearly exceeds $US 250 million \u2013 it is probably closer to $US 500 million annually. That\u2019s a fair chunk of change. Good idea? Or is there a better way [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bjsm\/2010\/03\/12\/time-to-debate-the-cost-of-the-war-on-drugs-in-sport\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[173],"tags":[1594,253,1467,1584,1390,804],"class_list":["post-151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-debates","tag-drug","tag-drugs","tag-money","tag-sport","tag-testing","tag-war"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bjsm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bjsm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bjsm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bjsm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bjsm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bjsm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bjsm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bjsm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bjsm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}