After months of research and debate, the Nevada Athletic Commission on Friday voted unanimously to increase its penalties for athletes that run afoul of Nevada’s regulations when it comes to drug testing. Of note, a first-time steroid offender will now receive a three-year suspension and lose 50-75 percent of his or her fight purse. There is also a rather short road to a lifetime ban for repeat offenders, not only for steroid use, but in every category, as noted below. If a fighter wins a bout and fails a drug test, the outcome of the bout for that fighter will be changed to a loss with a footnote on the fighter’s record that the loss was due to a positive drug test. In the past, the result would have been changed to a no-contest for the winning fighter who tested positive and the losing fighter
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Nevada Drops the Hammer on Drug Test Offenders, Including Lifetime Bans – MMA Weekly