Jose Canseco is on TRT without a TUE

Jose Canseco refused to submit to steroid-testing to testing for steroids, when he tried to return to the Mexican Baseball League. It was earlier claimed that the “Tigres de Quintana” of Cancun provided him the second chance and invited him to join to the team. Jose Canseco refused to submit to tests for steroids that had to be conducted by officers of the Mexico’s National Commission for Physical Culture and Sport (CONADE). CONADE is government agency that controls Olympic sports in Mexico. Cuauhtemoc Rodriguez Meza, the chief executive officer of this baseball team, confirmed that Jose Canseco would not be permitted to play for the team because he had admitted that he applied banned drugs. Jose Canseco admitted that he was on testosterone replacement therapy under supervision of a physician in the US. He said that he was on TRT since 2008. Jose Canseco was not surprised by the requirement to submit to urine analysis for steroids. This person wrote on his Twitter account last month that the Minor League Baseball would have testing for prohibited products. It is known that an athlete may utilize steroids for TRT and compete, if he/she has got a therapeutic use exemption (TUE). A TUE permits usage of forbidden products, if it is justified by medical conditions. It is evident that Jose Canseco has prescription from his health care provider that confirms his condition which requires being TRT. But he doesn’t have any TUE for application of testosterone. Canseco has publicly stated that he had a prescription from his health care provider to apply testosterone as a part of testosterone replacement therapy. He reported about this factor in a documentary in 2008. Jose Canseco claimed that he discontinued taking illegal steroids and had hypogonadism which was provoked by steroids. Then his physician prescribed him administering a testosterone gel in order to be relieved from negative results of steroids. It is clear that Jose Canseco’s usage of steroids is justified because he has medical support for application. But since he hasn’t got a TUE, it is not clear whether he would play in the team that has steroid testing. The CEO of “Tigres de Quintana” admitted that he had known that Jose Canseco was on TRT but he invited him to play, just with a TUE.