Overview
- Is the first book on the use of novel psychoactive substances (NPS) in sports
- Features contributions by multidisciplinary leading experts in the field
- Offers the latest findings on anti-doping
- Updates on the doping detection techniques
- Enhances knowledge on the rapidly changing doping scenario, regulation, policy and market structure of NPS used in sports
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Table of contents (19 chapters)
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Front Matter
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The Evolving Doping Scenario
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Navigating in a Difficult Regulatory Environment
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Towards a Doping Society?
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Winning at Any Cost: Doping Experiences of World-Class Athletes
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Keywords
- doping
- anti-doping policies
- clean sport
- novel psychoactive substances
- performance enhancers
- physical fitness
- athlete well-being
- emerging drugs
- athletic performance
- drug testing
- drug policy
- Olympic values
- elite athletes
- competitive sports
- illegal performance enhancing drugs
- sports medicine
- substance use and misuse
- World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA)
About this book
Athletes are always aiming to be faster, better, stronger. New techniques to enhance their sporting performance have increasingly been linked to use of novel psychoactive substances (NPS) and other hard-to-detect substances like performance-enhancing drugs. This book offers a timely analysis of the new challenges posed by this phenomenon in the anti-doping community.
The authors present the first comprehensive perspective on the rapidly shifting doping scenario and reflect on use, regulation, policy, and market structure of NPS used in sports. They highlight the challenges with the list of prohibited substances and methods in and out of competition. They also evaluate how methods to detect new drugs present an ongoing battle for doping control as they have to be adapted constantly.
Topics covered within the chapters include:
- Contamination of Sports Supplements with Novel Psychoactive Substances
- Untested Supplement Use Among Athletes:An Overlooked Phenomenon?
- International Drug Control: Protecting the Health of the Athlete
- Analysis of New Chemical Entities in a Sport Context
Emerging Drugs in Sport establishes a clear benchmark on the policy discussion, drawing from available evidence and sources, including athletes' personal experiences, to generate a fact-based resource that informs a research as well as wider audience. The book is essential reading for those working in anti-doping, substance misuse, sports, ethics, and human enhancement. It also is useful for policy-makers, legislative personnel, and other professionals with an interest in protecting clean sport.
“Doping is one of the greatest threats to the integrity of sport. We must never be tempted to turn our back on the problem and hope it will disappear. The benefits and values of clean sport have never been more important to the world. That is why this book withits wide-ranging approach is so valuable.”
Thomas Bach, President, International Olympic Committee
“Physical activity is vital to a healthy living, which is why doping is not just an assault on fair competition, but also on health. I strongly commend this book for compiling advanced knowledge on performance-enhancing drugs and promoting health through sport.”
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General, World Health Organization
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Ornella Corazza, PhD is an Associate Professor in Substance Addiction and Behaviours at the University of Hertfordshire in the UK and leading scholar in the field of novel psychoactive substances. Her work has been presented in numerous peer-reviewed publications, books and invited lectures and recognised internationally with various prizes and awards. She is the President of the International Society for the Study of Emerging Drugs (ISSED).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Emerging Drugs in Sport
Editors: Olivier Rabin, Ornella Corazza
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-79293-0
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-79292-3Published: 17 November 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-79295-4Published: 18 November 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-79293-0Published: 16 November 2021
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXV, 268
Number of Illustrations: 12 b/w illustrations, 19 illustrations in colour
Topics: Public Health, Sport Science , Criminology and Criminal Justice, general, Sociology of Sport and Leisure, Health Policy, Sports Medicine