Performance and image enhancing drugs (PIEDs) are taken by people who wish to improve their physical appearance and/or enhance their strength and sporting performance. Possible benefits include increasing the size and definition of muscles, reducing body fat, increasing strength/endurance and…
Tag Archive for anabolic steroids
Druglink article 2006 – Image injection by Max Daly
Steroids, speedballing and £10 bags of heroin are on the rise, while LSD and crystal meth are off the radar. With a special focus on growing steroid use among young men, Max Daly takes a look at the results of…
Druglink article 2005 – Quick fix for the six pack by Mark White
As pressure builds on men to have toned torsos, use of steroids has spread from body builders to the Loaded generation. Mark White on the vanity-fuelled class C drug and its lesser known cousin – human growth hormone. Quick fix…
Druglink article 2013 – Every day and every way…. by Max Daly
Max Daly investigates the growing market in drugs that claim to put you on top of the game. When hairdresser Claire Squires emptied a scoop of the now banned sports energy supplement Jack3d into her water bottle before running last year’s London Marathon, she had…
Druglink article 2014 – Nice of you to notice: Image and performance enhancing drugs by Joseph Kean and Jim McVeigh
A significant official under-reporting of steroid use is just one of the challenges facing those workers trying to assist many hidden groups of IPED users. For anyone who trains in a gym and has been brave enough to venture into the free weights area…
Druglink article 1994 – Steroids: use, users and responses by Pirkko Korkia and Gerry Stimson
Steroids are used by many men and to a lesser extent women involved in sport. In some areas they form a significant part of the needle exchange’s caseload. There is concern over the effects of some steroids and little is…
Druglink article 1992 – Adjusting to steroid users by Harry Shapiro
Steroid users are increasingly turning to needle exchanges for injecting equipment, advice and health checks, particularly in areas with a large bodybuilding population. Exchanges have had to adjust to this new client group in terms of information provision and delivery.…
Druglink article 1992 – A well-steroid user clinic by Kathryn Williamson, Meurig Davies and Andrew McBride
A drug team’s experience of running a specialist needle exchange scheme for steroid users. A well-steroid user clinic (PDF)
Druglink article 1989 – Steroids by Harry Shapiro
Control of steroids under the Misuse of Drugs Act seems just a matter of time. Arm yourself with the facts before steroids become another part of the drug abuse business. Steroids (PDF)
Druglink article 1988 – Hogg set to ban steroids
Against the advice of the ACMD it now appears certain that the government will control steroids under the Misuse of Drugs Act as soon as the details can be worked out… Hogg set to ban steroids (PDF)