Changelog
V0 -> V1
- Corrected Strength/AoE misunderstanding,
- Established Section 2, moved all subsequent sections down,
- Removed references to 'human',
- Somewhat clarified Section 3c,
- Adjusted Section 4, 'strongly encourages' to 'mandates',
- Removed some hyphens in Section 4c.
Draft V1
International Anti-Doping Agency
Category: Health
Area of Effect: Research
The World Assembly,
Recognising the right of each member nation to institute individual laws on recreational, performance-enhancing, and other drugs within their own sphere of influence,
Conscious that biochemical science may create drugs with beneficial or otherwise harmless side effects, without the intent of their use for their performance-enhancing properties,
Aware of the risk posed, both to individuals and society, by the biochemical and sports science arms race that strives to increase performance in sporting athletes' times, distances, and other measurable metrics,
Acknowledging the calls from athletes, sporting bodies, and health institutions globally for international and domestic sporting events to be, or have segmented events that are, performance-enhancing drug-free,
Recognising the need for a body to mandate standardisation of testing for, and prevention of, the use of performance-enhancing drugs, hereby:
1. Defines, for the purposes of this resolution, performance-enhancing drugs as chemical substances that objectively improve the measurable athletic ability of sporting athletes, or are intended to do so,
2. Excludes from Section 1 all chemical substances that are essential to life, provided they are administered, and thusly registerable through testing, in quantities that are expected to be found in a normal healthy individual,
3. Establishes the International Anti-Doping Agency (hereafter, IADA), with the mission to:
- Working with the World Health Authority (hereafter, WHA), develop methods of testing athletes for performance-enhancing drugs that are accurate, timely, and as non-intrusive as possible,
- Conduct empirically-justified research into performance-enhancing drugs and their effects on the body,
- Construct logistical frameworks for individual nations to model anti-doping programs, and performance-enhancing drug-free sporting events,
- Provide impartial agents to assist in the administration of anti-doping at international events which declare themselves drug-free;
4. Mandates individual nations:
- Create agencies to work in parallel with the IADA, in furthering each of its aims,
- Assist the WHA and the IADA in their empirical research efforts,
- Promote events with restrictions on performance-enhancing drugs, conducted both on a national, and international stage.
Draft V0