As a result of the new drug policy that allowed players like Wes Welker to return earlier than their previous suspensions allowed, the NFL will begin testing for human growth hormone on Monday.
The NFL and NFL Player’s Associationa greed to a new drug policy in mid-September. That agreement allowed players like Denver Broncos wide receiver Wes Welker and Dallas Cowboys’ Orlando Scandrick, both suspended for amphetamines, to return earlier than their previous four-game suspensions allowed.
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Their previous suspensions were when amphetamines were classified as a performance enhancing drug, the new policy reclassified them as recreational drugs.
Of course the player’s had to make concessions, and that included testing for human growth hormone, also known as HGH. Testing for HGH will begin Monday.
Per source, testing for human growth hormone in the NFL begins on Monday.
— Albert Breer (@AlbertBreer) October 4, 2014
“As you know, the new Performance Enhancing Substances Policy includes HGH testing. Testing for HGH will begin on Monday, October 6th,” NFLPA president Eric Winston said in a letter to players, via NFL.com. “Each week of the season, 5 players on 8 teams will be tested. No testing will occur on game days. We negotiated to ensure that the methodology of testing be conducted in the most professional and safest manner for players. Importantly, after three years of negotiating, players won the right to challenge any aspect of the science behind the HGH isoforms test in an appeal of a positive test.”
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