Drugs in Sports

Contents: 1. Drugs in sports an introduction. 2. The value and limitations of sport. 3. Ways to use sport to prevent youth substance abuse. 4. Sports supplements: a guide to sports drinks, health products and muscle builders. 5. Doping in sports. 6. Drugs in sport: insulin abuse subject to testing. 7. Asthma in sport: athletes should take heed of WADA guidelines. 8. Drug abuse in weightlifting. 9. Performance enhancing drugs in sports. 10. Steroids in sports. 11. Sports performance and drugs....

The use of performance enhancing drugs in sport is commonly referred to by the disparaging term doping particularly by those organizations that regulate competitions. The use of performance enhancing drugs is mostly done to improve athletic performance. The use of drugs to enhance performance is considered unethical by most international sports organizations and especially the international Olympic Committee, although ethicists have argued that it is little different from the use of new materials in the construction of suits and sporting equipment which similarly aid performance and can give competitors advantage over others. (jacket)