Topics include the physiology of addiction, prescription painkiller abuse, performance-enhancing drugs in major league sports, and the death of the troubled singer Amy Winehouse.
High-stakes academic settings further serve to promote stimulant use (and abuse) as performance enhancers.
When baseball has addressed the issue of drugs of abuse and performance enhancement, it has always ignored alcohol.
"There was a real concern about the abuse of performance-enhancing drugs in sports".
His father is an internist in Manhasset, N.Y., specializing in abuse of performance-enhancing drugs in sports, and he is a clinical associate professor of medicine at New York University School of Medicine.
Yet the Holocaust is a ghost that haunts this story of the most pervasive abuse of performance-enhancing drugs the world has seen.
Cycling had long been tainted by the abuse of performance-enhancing drugs, and Armstrong's achievement was so astounding that many people simply assumed he relied on them just as others had.
The Sport of Kings, Unclothed To the Sports Editor: Re "At Racetrack, Economic Pressures Overpower Veterinarians Oathh," Sept. 22: Speaking as a fairly typical thoroughbred racehorse owner, I hope people understand the lack of influence we have to prevent the abuse of performance-enhancing medications.
The use and abuse of performance-enhancing drugs in elite sport, or doping, as it has been called since around 1900, is a mutant form of an exclusive competition.
He had grown interested in the drug issue while helping to treat heroin addicts as a young doctor in Washington but had heard little of the abuse of performance-enhancing drugs in sport.
There is no knowing how exceptional Wiggins and Froome are in having TUEs, compared with their peers, nor what TUEs their rivals have or had, nor how big an issue TUE use is in cycling, let alone the extent to which TUEs may or may not be abused for performance enhancing reasons.
