NHL drug testing will most likely expand to include tests for cocaine by the end of the 2015-16 season, according to a report from TSN's Renaud Lavoie.
Lavoie indicated that nothing
was finalized yet between the NHL and NHL Player's Association, but that
suspensions will not be the immediate punishment for a positive test
for cocaine. Instead, players would be offered help by entering stage
one of the NHLPA's substance abuse program.The number of
[cocaine] positives are more than they were in previous years and
they're going up," NHL deputy commissioner Bill Daly told TSN in an
interview. "I wouldn't say it's a crisis in any sense. What I'd say is
drugs like cocaine are cyclical and you've hit a cycle where it's an
'in' drug again.
"I'd be shocked if we're
talking about a couple dozen guys. I don't want to be naïve here ... but
if we're talking more than 20 guys I'd be shocked. Because we don't
test in a comprehensive way, I can't say."
From Lavoie's reports, it sounds like the NHL and NHLPA are working to fix that problem.
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