The case for and against harm reduction approaches to drugs in sport

[...]is the possibility that harm reduction approaches are less relevant to the case of performance enhancing drugs and other substance use in sport, simply because sport is different. What would we see if, instead of the rhetoric of zero tolerance present in current anti-doping policy (weakened by inconsistent application by sports governing bodies and anti-doping agencies, appeals and higher level international hearings in the Court of Arbitration for Sport), we were to trial a strict substantive form of zero tolerance policy that uses harsher non-criminal sanctions (eg, longer competition bans, automatic life bans) for proven cases of doping and performance enhancing drug use?