By Jack Darkes, PhD, Rick Collins, JD, Dan Gwartney, MD, and Jason Cohen, PsyD Those of us who have spent our careers studying substance use (note we do not assume that all use is disordered) and/or working with, in various capacities, those who engage in non-medical use of androgenic/anabolic steroids (AAS) have long ceased being…
Baseball’s new steroid testing program significantly ramps up the penalties to players who test positive (for more about sports drug testing in general, see our page on the topic). The Washington Post reported on November 16, 2005, in an article entitled “Baseball Plan Would Exile Repeat Steroid Offenders” by Les Carpenter and Juliet Eilperin: “Under…
By the time the torch was extinguished and the dust of Athens had settled at the end of the summer Olympics, a total of 24 athletes had been thrown out of the Games for cheating by the use of performance-enhancing drugs, double the previous record of 12 from the Los Angeles Games in 1984. And…
