Hair Loss News

An Australian soccer player is fighting to save his career after doing something millions of other men do in order to stop their hair loss.

Former Australia international player Stan Lazaridis has tested positive for the drug finasteride, the active ingredient in Propecia.

Under the strict Football Federation Australia’s (FFA) anti-doping policy, finasteride is considered a prohibitive drug because it can be used as a masking agent.  Masking agents are drugs that are used to hide steroid use from drug tests.

According to Brendan Schwab, executive chairman of the Professional Footballers Association (PFA), the positive test resulted from the hair loss treatment (Propecia) Lazaridis was taking for androgenetic alopecia - a condition he had disclosed and which was accepted by football authorities on his arrival back in Australia last year.

Unfortunately for Lazaridis, he tested positive for finasteride in November 2006, but had only received exemption from the Australian Sports Drug Medical Advisory Committee (ASDMAC) to use Propecia in January 2007.

The Professional Footballer’s Association has vowed to fight for Stan Lazaridis’ career saying the star’s positive drug test resulted from bad timing.

We join them in supporting Stan Lazaridis whose only crime appears to want to stop his hair loss using a legal FDA approved hair loss drug.