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Title: Drug Testing High School Athletes and Fitness Trainers
Contributor(s): van de Ven, Katinka  (author)orcid ; Mulrooney, Kyle  (author)orcid 
Publication Date: 2018-04
Handle Link: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/27086
Abstract: The recreational use of steroids and other image enhancing drugs (SIEDs) to enhance image and/or performance has been firmly recognized as a public health concern (McVeigh, et al. 2016). In a meta-analysis of 187 studies exploring the recreational use of SIEDs, an overall global lifetime prevalence of 3.3 percent, and a lifetime prevalence of 2.3 percent for high school students who use SIEDs, was found (Sagoe, et al. 2014). In addition, looking at fitness training-related groups, such as bodybuilders, we see much higher numbers, with prevalence rates in gyms as high as almost half of all members. While most countries focus on prevention and education to deal with this growing issue, a handful have taken the drastic step of introducing dope-testing programs in gyms (only EU countries) and high schools (mainly the United States).
Publication Type: Entry In Reference Work
Source of Publication: Steroids and Doping in Sports: A Reference Handbook, p. 159-163
Publisher: ABC-CLIO
Place of Publication: California, United States of America
ISBN: 9781440854811
9781440854828
Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: 160299 Criminology not elsewhere classified
111799 Public Health and Health Services not elsewhere classified
160510 Public Policy
Fields of Research (FoR) 2020: 441011 Sociology of health
440214 Sociological studies of crime
320225 Sports medicine
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: 920401 Behaviour and Health
920504 Men's Health
940303 International Organisations
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2020: 200413 Substance abuse
230403 Criminal justice
200203 Health education and promotion
HERDC Category Description: N Entry In Reference Work
Publisher/associated links: https://www.abc-clio.com/ABC-CLIOCorporate/product.aspx?pc=A5368C
WorldCat record: http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/991584109
http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/992437349
Description: This work appears in the "Contemporary World Issues" series.
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