[Hornlist] Performance anxiety

[WIlliam Botte]

Has anyone paid any attention to the last Tour de France and the drug 
scandals prior to during and after?  Do we want the same scrutiny and 
humiliation (druf testing etc.)?  I don't.  Yet someone suggested using 
a beta blocker to control perfomance anxiety.  The drug suggested for 
experimentation isn't licensed for helping folks with  panic attacks.
Sooner or later some governing body will discover a "problem" and 
draconian scrutiny and onerous drug tests will fall on us like the 
sports community now endures.  These irresponsible suggestions for drug 
use should be reputiated by all responsible muscians.  I don't want to 
have to depend on a drug dependent colleage that can't control his/her 
nerves.  And let's keep the 'big brother" out of our concerts.
--wabotte
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