Performance-enhancing drugs

Orthop Clin North Am. 1995 Jul;26(3):433-42.

Abstract

The use of performance-enhancing drugs has certainly come to the forefront of athletics. This issue involves not only athletes but coaches and physicians as well. Our society's obsession with obtaining "the edge" is reflected in the athlete's perception that the end justifies the means.

Publication types

  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Adult
  • Amphetamines / pharmacology
  • Anabolic Agents / adverse effects
  • Anabolic Agents / pharmacology*
  • Blood Transfusion, Autologous
  • Caffeine / pharmacology
  • Doping in Sports*
  • Erythropoietin / adverse effects
  • Erythropoietin / pharmacology
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Sodium Bicarbonate / pharmacology

Substances

  • Amphetamines
  • Anabolic Agents
  • Erythropoietin
  • Caffeine
  • Sodium Bicarbonate