JAMAICA Amateur Athletic Association's (JAAA's) head of medical committee on anti-doping, Dr Warren Blake, says the local governing body hopes for a ruling by the end of next week into the positive doping test of 100m world and Olympic champion Shelly Ann Fraser following Wednesday's disciplinary panel hearing.

Former Chief Justice Lensley Wolfe, former Attorney General Winston Spaulding and psychiatrist Dr Aggrey Irons are in receipt of evidence submitted by Fraser after she tested positive for the prohibited substance 'Oxycodone' at the Shanghai Diamond League Meeting in China on May 23.

Oxycodone is named on the World Anti-Doping Agency's 2010 Prohibited Substances list as a narcotic in the same vein as morphine.

Blake told the Observer yesterday that the panel had indicated that they would be ready to rule by the end of the month, which ends next week Saturday.

Fraser has not competed since she withdrew from the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) Diamond League Meeting in Lausanne, Switzerland on July 8, following reports that she had tested positive for the prohibited substance in China.

Oxycodone, which is neither a masking agent nor a performance-enhancing drug, is defined as a painkiller used for the treatment of moderate to severe pain, the Internet website www.wikipedia.com says. Its most commonly reported effects include euphoria, constipation, fatigue, dizziness, nausea, light-headedness, headache, dry mouth, anxiety, itchy skin, and excessive sweating.

Bruce James, president of Fraser's training club, MVP, explained that the athlete took the substance for added pain relief after undergoing a dental procedure in Jamaica, but was sanctioned for failing to declare it in accordance with IAAF rules.

Blake said he did not know whether sanctions would be brought against Fraser's coach Stephen Francis, who is said to have given the athlete the substance.

Fraser could receive anything from a metaphoric "slap on the wrist" to a two-year ban.

According to the IAAF's Competition Rule 40.4: "Where an athlete or person can establish how a ...substance entered his body or came into his possession and... such substance was not intended to enhance the performance or mask the use of a performance-enhancing substance..." the punishment for a first violation shall be "at a minimum, a reprimand and no period of ineligibility from future Competitions and, at a maximum, two (2) years ineligibility".

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