"Mr Naden is prohibited from participating in any WADA compliant sport, including rugby league, while the provisional suspension is in place," the NRL said in a statement release on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
Cocaine is prohibited In-Competition by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) and the NRL's Anti-Doping Policy.<\/p>\n
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Naden had recently checked himself into a rehab facility to seek help with "a number of personal issues."<\/a><\/p>\n The Panthers had been supporting Naden as he battled with a number of off-field problems and acknowledged the NRL's provisional suspension on Tuesday.<\/p>\n "Penrith Panthers acknowledges the provisional suspension handed down to player Brent Naden after he returned a positive test for a recreational drug," A Panthers club statement read.<\/p>\n "As previously reported, Brent approached the club following the 2020 NRL Grand Final to seek help with a number of personal issues. At that time he admitted to the use of a recreational drug.<\/p>\n "Panthers informed the NRL of Brent's admission and with the support of the club, he commenced a voluntary rehabilitation program at a private health facility.<\/p>\n "Brent recently completed that program and continues to address his personal issues with the support of his family and Panthers staff.<\/p>\n "Working closely with Brent through this process, the club believes he has the capacity to overcome his personal issues and realise his potential.<\/p>\n "Panthers will continue to provide Brent and his family the support they need moving forward.<\/p>\n Under the Anti-Doping Policy, Mr Naden now has the opportunity to have his B-sample analysed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Panthers star Brent Naden has been provisionally suspended under the NRL's Anti-doping Policy. The NRL asserts that Naden returned a positive A-sample for metabolites of […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3619"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3619"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3621,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3619\/revisions\/3621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/p>\n