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Drug use and abuse is perhaps the biggest challenge facing sport today. However, in the eye of the storm of public and press opinion and with medals and morals at stake it can be difficult to gain a clear perspective on this complex issue. Drugs in Sport is the most comprehensive and accurate text available on the subject. Now in a fully revised and updated fifth edition, taking into account the latest regulations, methods and landmark cases, the book explores the hard science behind drug use in sport, as well as the ethical, social, political and administrative context. Key topics include:

• mode of action and side effects of each major class of drugs used in sport
• discussion of cutting-edge issues, including gene doping
• the latest doping control regulations of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA)
• methods and advances in doping control, including new intelligence-led detection policies
• the use of Therapeutic Use Exemption for certain drugs banned in sport
• issues surrounding non-prohibited substances and ergogenic aids
• an assessment of the prevalence of drug taking in sport.

Accessibly written, extensively referenced, and supported throughout with illustrative case studies and data, Drugs in Sport provides a comprehensive, objective resource for students and researchers, athletes, sports scientists, coaches, journalists, sports administrators and policymakers.

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Enables you to detect, identify, and characterize hundreds of drugs that may be used by athletes

Mass spectrometry has become essential to sports drug testing. This book examines both the principles of sports drug testing and the use of mass spectrometry techniques and mass spectral data to detect, identify, and characterize hundreds of known and unknown drugs that athletes may use to enhance their performance. The author provides a detailed overview of the mass spectrometry of numerous classes of therapeutics and agents, various analyzers to detect low- and high-molecular weight drugs, as well as techniques to discriminate between endogenously produced and synthetically derived compounds.

Mass Spectrometry in Sports Drug Testing begins with a full chapter dedicated to the history of sports drug testing. Next, the book provides the principles and techniques needed to maximize the specificity and sensitivity of mass spectrometric assays, including:

• Detailed, step-by-step assays with sample preparation
• Discussion of both chromatographic separation and mass spectrometric analysis
• Characterization of analytes  in order to unequivocally identify banned substances
• Mass spectrometric behavior of low- and high-molecular weight analytes

Throughout the book, descriptive examples illustrate the principles, advantages, and limitations of different assays.

Mass Spectrometry in Sports Drug Testing not only sets forth the role mass spectrometry plays in detecting drug use among athletes, it also adds new insights into the health and ethical issues of doping in sports.  ... Read more

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A gripping, insightful and provacative insider's look at the issue of drugs in sport - the deaths, the scandals, the conspiracies, and the on-going race to beat the cheats. ... Read more

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This is an A-Z guide by drug name (INN) of over 450 drugs restricted in sport. Each drug monograph has a regular structure containing a list of synonyms, drug profile (medical use), World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) classification; restriction in sport (in and out of competition); and, list of single and multi-ingredient proprietary preparations containing the drug from 40 countries worldwide (Martindale data). ... Read more

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The International Olympic Committee began its fight against performance-enhancing drugs nearly four decades ago. Testing has become increasingly more sophisticated, but the problem is far from being eliminated. Doping in Elite Sport: The Politics of Drugs in the Olympic Movement addresses the challenges and complexities of the issue.

The text, edited by Wayne Wilson, PhD, and Edward Derse, is based on papers presented at the 1998 conference, Doping in Elite Sport, and includes:
-a basic scientific explanation of how performance-enhancing substances improve performance and how banned substances are detected;

-a critical examination of the failure to control doping in the Olympic movement;

-a historical timeline of drug use in sport;

-evaluations of the philosophical and ethical issues of drug testing;

-the international politics of combatting drug use in sport; and

-insight as to how three very different countries have handled the issue of performance-enhancing drugs in sport.
Part I, “The Science of Doping,” provides the reader with a basic scientific explanation of how banned substances can improve performance, the process of drug testing, and the detection of athletes' drug use. This section also offers a recommended protocol for drug testing and critiques the differences between the ideal and actual testing practices

Part II, “The History, Ethics, and Social Context of Doping,” reviews the complex social and cultural issues surrounding doping. A thorough chronology of performance-enhancing drug use in sport precedes discussions of the ethical and cultural dimensions of the issue. Included is a comparative analysis of how Canada, Russia, and China - three very different countries - have responded to doping scandals involving their athletes.

Part III, “The Politics of Doping,” critically examines the effectiveness of the IOC and the international sport federations in administering campaigns against doping. Lack of political will, financial interests, and uncooperative bureaucracies all have hindered effective enforcement.

The first anthology on performance-enhancing drugs in sport, Doping in Elite Sport: The Politics of Drugs in the Olympic Movement is a critical examination of the failure to control the use of banned performance-enhancing drugs in the international sports arena. It provides an extensive overview of the real issues in the battle against doping in international sport.

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Is There Purity in Sport?
This book is a book that provides a lot of information and hard facts for how the doping situation in the Olympics needs to be solved. It points out all of the corruption not only in athletes and countries but in the IOC, the organization responsible for drug testing. In editing the book, Wayne Wilson and Edward Dares attempt to collect articles, written by various authors, to show their disapproval of doping in sport and in their condemnation of the IOC for their apathy toward the epidemic. According to Ramin Minovi "Most of the writers deplore the failure of governing bodies to address the question, allowing drug use to proliferate, paying lip service to its dangers but taking no action."The majority of the works in the book does reprimand the IOC for not doing their job and for the corruption that exists or existed in it.The other chapters give the history of doping, give an example of the drugs used to escape detection and the methods of testing. By no means is there any chapter that supports the IOC in their dealings with drugs and enforcement of their drug policy.
The book it self was a very informative book but therefore was not very captivating. The book gave tons of facts but if the reader was not very interested in the topic to begin with then the book would not hold your attention. To compensate for the monotony of the book the book is short and has many sections to it. As a result of each chapter being a different article, written by different authors. This made the book "both readable and worth reading" to Ramin Minovi. He and I disagree on the difficulty of the reading. He said that the book was a "big read" and I feel that the articles were simplistic but some knowledge of steroids may be required. However one of chapters describes what some of these drugs do. Some of the articles of the book are almost repetitive and therefore could be left out. I feel as though these chapters should be skimmed through and then the reader should weed out the articles he/she has no interest in. The book also provides images which make the book a little more interesting. According to Minovi, they are the chapters about "Australian attitudes toward performance-enhancing drugs", and on Canada, German and China's regulations and dealings with toward athletes who abuse drugs.The book may also disinterest some from reading it because it is sort of a long book to be just informative but many of the pages are work cited pages. The book overall is decent but I would not recommend it to a person with no interest in the topic.

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Ramin Minovi. 2001. http://www.abcc.freeserve.co.uk/drugs_elite1.html ... Read more

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Describes the widespread use of anabolic steroids, brake drugs, amphetamines, cocaine, and marijuana by athletes and discusses what the sports world has done to cope with drug abuse. ... Read more

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This book offers a new history of drug use in sport. It argues that the idea of taking drugs to enhance performance has not always been the crisis or ‘evil’ we now think it is. Instead, the late nineteenth century was a time of some experimentation and innovation largely unhindered by talk of cheating or health risks. By the interwar period, experiments had been modernised in the new laboratories of exercise physiologists. Still there was very little sense that this was contrary to the ethics or spirit of sport. Sports, drugs and science were closely linked for over half a century.

The Second World War provided the impetus for both increased use of drugs and the emergence of an anti-doping response. By the end of the 1950s a new framework of ethics was being imposed on the drugs question that constructed doping in highly emotive terms as an ‘evil’. Alongside this emerged the science and procedural bureaucracy of testing. The years up to 1976 laid the foundations for four decades of anti-doping. This book offers a detailed and critical understanding of who was involved, what they were trying to achieve, why they set about this task and the context in which they worked. By doing so, it reconsiders the classic dichotomy of ‘good anti-doping’ up against ‘evil doping’.

Winner of the 2007 Lord Aberdare Literary Prize for the best book in British sports history.

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Best history of doping in sport
This is the best book on doping. Only negative: it repeats some of John Hoberman's sources but otherwise adds significantly to the literature.

A Superior Analysis
Not only does Dr. Dimeo dismantle popularized notions of how we reached modern (and cultivated post-modern) understandings of drug use in sport, he actually executes great scholarship in doing so.

Like other (all too rare) scholarship-driven efforts of this type, the agendas of those - including some 'sacred cows' of sport academia - who employ data (or not!) to articulate their own preconceived point of view have their analyses imploded utterly.

Resultantly, readers are free to begin a process of engaging what's knowable.Dimeo, thankfully, lays superior groundwork for some of the first meaningful discussions about drugs in sport at all.

The only criticism I can level is that is ought have been titled "Part One," as we need a "Part Two" to complete the arc of analysis, in my view.But that's being picky.

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Drug abuse is currently the biggest problem facing international sport. This book is a rational account of the nature and extent of drug abuse in sport, one which evaluates scientific evidence in layman's terms. Anabolic steroids, amphetamine-induced rage in football players, puberty retardation in female gymnasts, beta-blockers for marksman, cocaine and growth hormone are just some of the problems investigated in this highly topical study. For this new paperback edition the authors have added material describing the most recent events including the David Jenkins' trial in America. They conclude by calling for an independent sampling system to tackle the problem. ... Read more