If you are in any doubt as to how to complete your Whereabouts, a revised ADAMS User Guide is available by clicking the link below and an updated ADAMS Online Tutorial is also available.
To contact UK Anti-Doping, please use the following details:
Whereabouts Phone Line: 008000 943 7378 (WHERE R U) (Not available from USA and Australia)
Whereabouts SMS: +44 (0) 7786 202 407
Whereabouts Email: athlete@ukad.org.uk
Click below to download the revised ADAMS User Guide for April 2009
ADAMS Athlete User Guide Version 9 [PDF, 629k]
If you need further help with your whereabouts filing please contact:
Eliot Caton, Athlete Support Officer
Email: Eliot.caton@ukad.org.uk
Telephone: (0) 20 7766 7366
ATHLETE REMINDER 2010 PROHIBITED LIST CHANGES
Pseudoephedrine is Prohibited
Pseudoephedrine has been placed back on the 2010 Prohibited List. Pseudoephedrine is readily available in many over the counter cold and flu remedies and as an athlete you should take particular care when using such products. As with all medications, always check the status on www.globaldro.com before using the product. Following consultation with a physician if necessary, athletes should at all times use an alternative permitted medication to pseudoephedrine. This will minimise the risk of inadvertently surpassing the threshold and returning an Adverse Analytical Finding.
The Process has changed for Asthma Inhalers
Two Beta-2 Agonists taken via inhalation, Salbutamol and Salmeterol, no longer require a Therapeutic Use Exemption (TUE) as is currently the case. Instead you are required to complete a Declaration of Use. With a Declaration of Use a maximum of 1600μg of Salbutamol in a 24 hour period is permitted. The information provided by the manufacturers of salbutamol inhalers is that the maximum dose should not exceed 800μg within a 24 hour period (as a guidance this is normally 1/2 inhalations 4 times a day). Following the manufacturer’s guidance will minimise the risk of inadvertently surpassing the threshold and returning an Adverse Analytical Finding. All other Beta-2 Agonists will still require full lung function tests and a TUE application.
We recognise that you might have already received this information already but with the significant impact of some of these changes in particular the re-introduction of pseudoephedrine back onto the Prohibited List we felt it crucial to provide a further reminder so that you can ensure you continue to take care and check your medications.
In order to check medications we provide the online database developed by UK Sport and the anti-doping organisations in the USA (USADA) and Canada (CCES). The Global Drug Reference Online (Global DRO, www.globaldro.co.uk) provides fast and accurate information about which substances are prohibited according to the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) Prohibited List and which medications contain a prohibited substance. If you check a medication this year please be sure to check again at the start of 2010.
