What? Now you're just playing stupid.
Obviously everyone knows anti-inflams help with recovery post-game, post-training session, post-everything. The article even talks about a Parma playing using one of these legal drugs.
Anyone who doesn't take advantage of every legal avenue to performance enhancement is stupid and deserves to lose. This wasn't a case of Juve having exclusive rights and knowledge about legal performance-enhancing supplements and drugs. The information and studies are out there for everyone. Why do you think every single team hires consultants and experts with regard to all these things. To determine every single legal method to enhance performance and gain a competitive edge.
It's not unethical at all. That's a retarded argument. FFS. Suggesting people don't know anti-inflams and painkillers help with performance.
And if a heart condition drug is not a banned substance and aids performance in other ways, it's not at all unethical to use it as such. It's the same as using any performance enhancing substance that has other uses as well. It's the same as early adherents to training at high altitude because of the performance enhancing aspects of training with thinner air, or hyperbaric chambers, etc. I guess it's unethical to use these advantages if your opponents don't have them.
I guess it's unethical to spend more money on players than your opponents because that provides a competitive advantage they don't have access to.
Legal drug use, as in not banned as a performance enhancing substance, is not unethical in the slightest. Suggesting otherwise is just stupid.