ArticleAdvanced pharmaceutical bulletin2018
Doping in Sports, a Never-Ending Story?
Article in Advanced pharmaceutical bulletin, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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Who cites it
15 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 56 citations in OpenAlex.
- Adverse events of clenbuterol among athletes: a systematic review of case reports and case series.International journal of legal medicine · 2023Pooled it
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- Evaluating a novel team learning approach for integrating drugs in sports education in preclinical medical training.Frontiers in medicine · 2025Article
- Exploring the scope and applications of anti-doping measures in ultramarathon: an analysis of the positions of ultramarathon race organizers.Frontiers in sports and active living · 2024Article
- Competence in Sports Pharmacy among Pharmacy Students in Norway.Pharmacy (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Beyond a Game: A Narrative Review of Psychopathic Traits in Sporting Environments.Sports (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
- Bodybuilding: A Comprehensive Review of Performance-Enhancing Substance Use and Public Health Implications.Cureus · 2023Review
- The association between subjective anti-doping knowledge and objective knowledge among Japanese university athletes: a cross-sectional study.Frontiers in sports and active living · 2023Article
- A Comprehensive Assessment of Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practicalities Related to Doping Agents use among Jordanians.Clinical practice and epidemiology in mental health : CP & EMH · 2022Article
- Sport supplement use among high school rugby players in South Africa: A scoping review.South African journal of sports medicine · 2022Article
- To Be a Champion of the 24-h Ultramarathon Race. If Not the Heart ... Mosaic Theory?International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- Doping Knowledge, Attitude and Practice of Pharmacists in Dessie, Northeast Ethiopia.Integrated pharmacy research & practice · 2021Article
- Prevalence of therapeutic use exemptions at the Olympic Games and association with medals: an analysis of data from 2010 to 2018.British journal of sports medicine · 2020Article
- Detection of anabolic steroidsRSC advances · 2020Article
- Attitude of athletes towards doping: A dilemma in Pakistan.Pakistan journal of medical sciencesArticle
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Authors and funding
4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Through doping, we understand the use by athletes of substances prohibited by the antidoping agencies in order to gain a competitive advantage. Since sport plays an important role in physical and mental education and in promoting international understanding and cooperation, the widespread use of doping products and methods has consequences not only on health of the athletes, but also upon the image of sport. Thus, doping in sports is forbidden for both ethical and medical reasons. Narcotics and analgesics, anabolic steroids, hormones, selective androgen receptor modulators are among the most frequently utilized substances. Although antidoping controls are becoming more rigorous, doping and, very importantly, masking doping methods are also advancing, and these are usually one step ahead of doping detection techniques. Depending on the sport practiced and the physical attributes it requires, the athletes will look for one or more of the following benefits of doping: recovering from an injury, increasing body recovery capacity after training, increasing muscle mass and strength, decreasing fat tissue, increasing endurance. Finally, when we look once again at a doping scandal, amazed at how much animosity against those caught can exist; the question is: is it really such a disaster as presented by the media or a silent truth under our eyes, but which many of us have refused to accept?
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