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I remember seeing those screens as a kid and being confused. Seems like quite a departure from the game I was just playing. I wasnt even considering using drugs, will they somehow improve my game performance? and thats why not using them playing games is more honourable? Hmmm, I must investigate these 'drugs', Thanks FBI warning message!

*ps I reckon we got the US versions of various games here in Ireland so the warning from the 'FBI' was doubly incongruous.

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On that tangent: is there such a thing as a "dexterity-and-reflex-enhancing drug"? I don't think amphetamines do that, nor any nootropic I'm even vaguely aware of. "Focus" or "alertness" is one thing, but actually suddenly being better at competitive twitch games is quite another. Maybe an anxiolytic, actually—theanine?—if you wanted to prevent "yips." But otherwise...

The Electronic Sports League (ESL) has recently decided to start testing for drugs during its tournaments. http://motherboard.vice.com/read/after-adderall-scandal-espo... They will be using this list to test players http://list.wada-ama.org/

The implications of testing for anabolic steroids for previously non-gender-segregated competition is worrying. Previously, a transitioning transgendered person could openly compete in an eSports tournament; steroid use was just irrelevant to what eSports measure.

I'm kind of surprised there isn't an exception for medically necessary use of substances on the list (at least, that I can find). Obviously, medically necessary drugs can still give you a advantage, but taking a substance your body would typically produce seems a reasonable exception. For example, trans men don't produce significant amounts of testosterone, so they need to take it both to transition and to be competitive.

That exception wouldn't technically cover trans women because we often take spironolactone to totally eliminate testosterone rather than because it's missing. Apparently, it's banned because it's used by athletes to hide their past usage of forbidden steroids.

There is such an exception. Straight from the horse's mouth:

https://www.reddit.com/r/GlobalOffensive/comments/3gmog8/esl...

Thanks for posting that! I should have mentioned in my previous comment that a medical exemption doesn't completely solve the problem — some trans people have issues getting hormones through a doctor and buy it without a prescription.

Still, it's much better than nothing.

That's disgusting. I hope attention is called to it to boycott such groups.

Maybe blood doping? Also, caffeine and cocaine. Perhaps Adderall or ritalin depending on the individual?

Just speculating.

Amphetamine would work for this, increases cognitive control, reflexes and dexterity. It does have a lot of side effects of course and sometimes paradoxical effects.

Same here. I guess I figured they were for the "bad" teenagers in my neighborhood, who wouldn't be caught dead in an arcade.

I'm glad they didn't promote retirement savings and advise kids to "fund your IRA" ...

or AA means "automobile association" here, similar to your AAA I believe. We dont have alcoholics anonymous cus nobody here has a drinking problem.

ps. It took me a while of watching american tv shows before I figured that one out. I thought people were going to automobile association meetings which seemed a bit odd.

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