What does the next generation of performance-enhancing drugs look like?
Gary Wadler: Well, several things. One, if we look historically, the greatest advances have been made in medicine in the last fifty years and the drugs which we have great pride in because they really help patients are the very drugs that are being abused by athletes. If we look forward, we will continue to develop new drugs and new technologies and there’s no question that we already know factually that there are those who are already trying to get a hold of the new technologies. Now, when I graduated from medical school, we didn’t have diuretics. We had to inject people with mercury. And this sounds kind of wild, but it wasn’t that long ago. We had a very limited number of antibiotics and if you needed to get somebody’s blood count up, you had to give ‘em a lot of transfusions. Things have changed dramatically. Well, if we take several of those changes and see what’s happened; for example, for years people took anabolic steroids because they had anemia, for a variety of causes, to ge
