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…
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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 2004 – Sports doping control: failing the test by Harry Shapiro
Sportsmen and women who break the drug rules face career – threatening bans and reputations as ‘drug cheats’. But, writes Harry Shapiro, scientific and ethical doubts about the whole programme remain unanswered. Sports doping control: failing the test (PDF)
Druglink article 2010 – Fitness regime by Andrew McNicoll
Getting caught taking illegal drugs can be more career threatening for our sports stars than breaking a leg. Andrew McNicoll reports on a harsh testing system which is more obsessed with image than individuals. Fitness regime (PDF)
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 2013 – White riot by Max Daly
When Millwall fans started punching anyone in sight at an FA Cup game being shown live on TV, it reignited memories of the hooligan blighted days of yesteryear. Max Daly on how the rise of cocaine is fuelling a new breed of football…
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 – Re-inventing the (square) wheel by Ross Coomber
Athlete or not, sport needs your help to get real about drugs Re-inventing the (square) wheel (PDF)
Druglink article 1990 – Running man – cheat or scapegoat? by Harry Shapiro
Campaigners against the use of drugs in sport argue in simplistic, crusading terms but there is a case for saying these arguments do not justify the restriction proposed. Behind the emotion generated by the issue may be an attempt to…
Playing the game
August 6th 2015 Some fifteen years ago, around the time the World Anti-Doping Agency was being formed, I attended an international drugs-in-sport conference in London. There was an almost messianic fervour in the room that drugs could be eliminated from…