Soccer's 'alarming' rise in drug abuse

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SuggestedLeadIn: FIFA's chairman of medical research, Dr Jiri Dvorak, has warned there is an alarming rise in the absue of medications by international players across the world.

<b>Script: </b>SOUNDBITE: (English) Dr Jiri Dvorak, Chairman FIFA Medical Research and Assessment Committee (on alarming trend of players abusing medicines)
"Another issue which worries us is related to the doping controls is the abuse of medications. Unrelated to the continent, unrelated to the age there is a clear alarming abuse of intake of medications, in particularly non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs. Fifty per cent of players participating in World Cup are taking non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, one third of them regularly prior every game. This is for me alarming and we doctors are responsible."
(on lack of evidence for systematic doping in football)
"They are huge figures which justify the statement that there is no evidence for systematic doping in football around the world. There are individual cases and we have to go behind them, we have to strengthen the controls, inclusion of the biological passport, but still we do not have the evidence for systematic doping in football".

<b>SHOTLIST: </b>1. 00:00 SOUNDBITE: (English) Dr Jiri Dvorak, Chairman FIFA Medical Research and Assessment Committee

Source:<p>SNTV</p>

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Soccer's 'alarming' rise in drug abuse