The use of performance-enhancing drugs (PEDs) is currently one of the biggest issues in modern sport. Athletes such as Lance Armstrong (cyclist banned for using steroids and blood boosting drugs ...

Amphetamines are essentially included in all sport-related drug-testing protocols and are readily detected in the urine. Since amphetamines are primarily abused as performance drugs rather than as ...

Research Institute for Sport and Exercise Sciences, Liverpool John Moores University, Tom Reilly Building, Byrom Street Campus, Liverpool L3 3AF, UK;P.Angell{at}2004.ljmu.ac.uk The use of ...

The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), set up in 1999 by the International Olympic Committee to combat illegal performance enhancement in sports, defines doping as use of drugs that meets two of ...

We further believe that the prime objective of any ‘drugs in sport’ policy must be the health and welfare ... The blurring of the distinction between the use of performance-enhancing drugs and the use ...

Italian tennis player Jannik Sinner has been accused of taking performance-enhancing drugs. Doping, often pursued in the ...

any further improvement will require performance-enhancers Admiration of a sport can even be reduced if the competitors could perform better on drugs It is misleading to say it disadvantages ...

AN EXPLOSIVE report into the use of performance enhancing drugs in Australian sport has found strong evidence of the use of banned substances among multiple athletes and sporting codes. The 12-month ...

As with other drugs of abuse, the use of inhalants while taking other depressant drugs such as alcohol and tranquilizers increases the risk of loss of consciousness, coma and even death.

"It’s not an organized sport, so there’s technically no ... "I don’t offer performance-enhancing drugs to my clients," he said. U.S. blogger Alan Arnette, who climbed Everest in 2011 on ...

Research Institute for Sport and Exercise Sciences, Liverpool John Moores University, Tom Reilly Building, Byrom Street Campus, Liverpool L3 3AF, UK;P.Angell{at}2004.ljmu.ac.uk The use of ...