THE AFL's doctors will attend the board meetings of every club to educate them about the league's drugs policy.

AFL medical officers Harry Unglik and Peter Harcourt will attend board meetings of all clubs in June and July. Unglik is overseas before then so the middle of the year is the first opportunity to speak to all clubs.

Unglik and Harcourt have delivered a confronting presentation to players in the pre-season outlining the dangers of drugs and the mechanics of the AFL's testing regime. A similar, though distilled, version of this presentation was made to the chief executives of clubs at the recent CEOs' meeting.

A number of those CEOs, frustrated by the ignorance of some on their own boards about the AFL's drugs policy and that two separate but parallel drug testing regimes operate, have requested the league's medical officers make similar presentations at board meetings.

The doctors would also be available to field questions.

Melbourne chairman Paul Gardner and Hawthorn president Jeff Kennett have been the most strident critics of the AFL's three-strikes approach to players who fail drug tests. Both believe the stance too lenient and a harder line should be adopted with drug users.

News of the move comes after some Federal Government ministers criticised the AFL for its "soft" drugs policy in a co-ordinated attack this week.