The new front in the war on doping: Amateur athletes

Henning, April; Dimeo, Paul

doi:10.1016/j.drugpo.2017.05.036

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“…This is contra the broader trends in approach to substance use. While harm reduction strategies and interventions for recreational drug use have flourished, sport has remained stubbornly bullish on a detect and punish approach ( Henning & Dimeo, 2018 ), not only in elite sport but also in recreational and non-competitive sport contexts. Amateurs and recreational athletes are included anti-doping's remit and they may be punished in the same way as elites for anti-doping rule violations, regardless of their athletic ambitions.…”

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Risk and enabling environments in sport: Systematic doping as harm reduction

Henning

McLean

Andreasson

et al. 2021

International Journal of Drug Policy

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Doping and the use of performance enhancing drugs (PEDs) are often considered and discussed as a separate issue from other types of substance use, by sporting bodies, politicians, the media, and athletes who use drugs themselves. However, perceptions and understandings of substance use in the sport and fitness world are directly related to those of substance use in the non-sport world. One way the gap between sport and non-sport substance use research can be bridged is to consider sport risk and enabling environments. Similar to non-sport contexts and drug use, it is important to analyse the environments in which doping occurs. This approach allows us to examine the dynamic interplay between risk and enabling factors, as the enabling environment shifts in response to changes produced in the risk environment, and vice versa. There are models of sport environments that have proven effective at both enabling doping by athletes and reducing harms to athletes: systematic doping. This article will use secondary literature in order to review and analyse known cases of systematic doping through the risk and enabling environment frameworks. We argue that these systems responded to anti-doping in ways that protected athletes from the risk factors established by anti-doping policy and that athletes suffered most when these systems were revealed, exposing athletes to the full range of doping harms. Further, we argue that risks within these systems (i.e. extortion, bullying) resulted from the broader prohibitive sport environment that forces doping underground and allows such abuses to occur.

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Risk and enabling environments in sport: Systematic doping as harm reduction

Henning

McLean

Andreasson

et al. 2021

International Journal of Drug Policy

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“…124 Teniendo en cuenta la historia del uso de sustancias ilícitas en competición y los ámbitos que constituyen el contexto del dopaje (atletas, laboratorios y entorno deportivo), es necesario reconocer los avances que en materia científica contribuyen a enfrentar el dopaje en el deporte, 93 los cuales han fortalecido las políticas antidopaje. Reconociendo que el campo del deporte es un sistema complejo con una diversidad de intereses 125 y en el que existen organizaciones que ejercen relaciones de poder asimétricas, 126 es prioritario analizar aquellos discursos emergentes que ven en las políticas sancionatorias una amenaza a la estabilidad del clima competitivo, 56,127,128 tomando como alternativa al uso de sustancias prohibidas, la evaluación del potencial de dopaje de los fármacos antes que dichos medicamentos estén disponibles. 129 Al examinar la efectividad de los procedimientos actuales para medir y mejorar el cumplimiento de las normas antidopaje, 130 es común encontrar como alternativa un análisis de los factores de política deportiva que conducen al éxito internacional, 131,132 sin desconocer la importancia de la educación antidopaje y particularmente la formación de profesores.…”

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El Dopaje Deportivo Como Cuestión Socialmente Viva: Una Revisión Bibliográfica

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Torres-Aranguren

2019

Quím. Nova

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This paper aims to present a review of the concept doping in scientific journals published in the period 2008 to 2018. The diversity of approaches that position doping as a socially acute question (SAQ) allow us to recognize the implications of this concept in educational contexts. The state of the art methodology seeks to reflexively recover production on the meaning that is attributed in the literature to the knowledge, practices and social, political and educational implications of a subject as complex as doping. Among the trends found, the Analytical Chemistry approach is highlighted, associated with the studies carried out in the laboratories on techniques and methods for the detection of prohibited substances; the consequences in terms of costs and benefits of doping from biochemical and physiological studies; the set of ideas, conceptions and representations that people have against doping; the educational programs and the pedagogical proposals that study the psychological, epistemological and methodological foundations for the prevention of doping; and the legal aspects, public policies and debates around doping and competition rules.

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“…While competitive athletes have planned surveillance of their activities, amateur athletes have different sources of knowledge about the characteristics of PA. This might determine the adoption of habits not useful to reach adequate level of PA (immoderate use of food supplements, drug abuse to improve performance, overtraining programs increasing the risk of injuries) [33,[44][45][46].…”

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Guidelines for Physical Activity—A Cross-Sectional Study to Assess Their Application in the General Population. Have We Achieved Our Goal?

Palermi

Sacco

Belviso

et al. 2020

IJERPH

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National and international healthcare organizations propose guidelines for physical activity worldwide, defining its characteristics. These guidelines’ practical applications are difficult to estimate, since they are not fully followed. The aim of the present cross-sectional observational study was to assess awareness about guidelines for physical activity and to evaluate their practical applications in a sample of the Italian population. In total, 310 participants completed an online survey (mean age 29.10 ± 4.44), assessing the habits, beliefs and health effects of physical activity. In total, 39.35% of respondents were inactive. In total, 6.91% of active respondents did not perform a warm-up phase at the beginning of each training session and 77.14% did not check their own heart rate during the training session. Approximately half of respondents reported erroneous beliefs about the type, frequency and volume of physical activity, compared to data proposed by the guidelines. The preventive effect of physical activity was clearly perceived for cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, metabolic syndrome and depression. Several subjects misinterpreted the preventive role of physical activity in colon and breast cancers, and in femur and vertebral fractures. Habits and beliefs about physical activity in the general population are far from the guidelines and recommendations. Therefore, it is necessary to strengthen the conscious practice of physical activity further.

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The new front in the war on doping: Amateur athletes

Cited by 43 publications

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Risk and enabling environments in sport: Systematic doping as harm reduction

Risk and enabling environments in sport: Systematic doping as harm reduction

El Dopaje Deportivo Como Cuestión Socialmente Viva: Una Revisión Bibliográfica

Guidelines for Physical Activity—A Cross-Sectional Study to Assess Their Application in the General Population. Have We Achieved Our Goal?

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