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Loophole in MLB drug testing?

Have baseball players discovered a loophole to the drug-testing program? Congressman John Tierney (D-Mass.) raised the question yesterday. Baseball will likely look into it.

According to statistics provided to Tierney by Major League Baseball, 111 players received "therapeutic-use exemptions" in 2007, and 103 of those were for attention deficit disorder. That number came from a pool of 1,354...

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